Recent reports

01 April 1968
Comments News and comment Several Red-necked Grebes Podiceps ruficollis were seen inland in London, Essex, Berkshire and Huntingdon in January-February and some notable concentrations off Northumberland included peaks of 43 at Budle on 28th January and 23 at Bamburgh on 17th-! 8th...
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News and comments

01 April 1968
Comments News and comment Proposed Seychelle Islands reserve.--The recent threats to Aldabra called forth united protests from many nations, and it is pleasant now to find international co-operation over another Indian Ocean project. For the past seven years the International C...
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Letters

01 April 1968
Comments Letters Taxonomic responsibility Sirs,--In his review (Brit. Birds, 59:312-315) of the revised and enlarged edition of A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (1966), E. M. Nicholson remarked on the arbitrary alteration of the classification, sequence an...
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Reviews

01 April 1968
Comments Reviews The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Birds. By J. Hanzak, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1967. 582 pages; 1,220 photographs (45 in colour) and 7 drawings. 30s. This Anglo-Czech production, refreshingly inexpensive as such, is edited by Bruce Campbell, whose foreword de...
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Notes

01 April 1968
Comments Notes Food of Osprey in Kent.--Between 14th September and 18 th October 1967 I spent about 30 hours watching an Osprey Pandion haliaetus which stayed at a reservoir near Folkestone, Kent, for those five weeks. At first it caught small Perch Percafluviatilis ...
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Little Swift in Co. Cork

01 April 1968
Comments Main paper On the evening of 12th June 1967, on Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, I was sitting on top of a steep ridge overlooking Cummer, a narrow col situated between the north and south harbours. The soft evening light was directly behind me and it was perfectly c...
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