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01 September 1972 Comments News and comment Foulness wildlife study When the Foulness area was chosen for the Third London Airport, the Government promised that funds would be available for a study of the airport's impact on the wildlife environment of the region. Long after some of us had given up...

Reviews

01 September 1972 Comments Reviews Gulls i n Britain. By Richard Vaughan. Witherby, London, 1972. 96 p a g e s ; 54 black-and-white plates. £1.75. This is a pleasant book. Gulls are highly photogenic, but few of us who walk through a gullery firing off a camera in all directions prod...

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01 September 1972 Comments Notes Bewick's Swans feeding on waste potatoes and other agricultural crops Bewick's Swans Cygnus bewickii were present on the North Slob, Wexford, from 27th October 1971 to 10th March 1972. The maximum count was 131 on n t h February and the average from 17th ...

British bird-photographers 15: William S. Paton

01 September 1972 Comments Main paper Plates ))- 60 Occasionally a bird-photographer seems to have been born overnight: quite suddenly, his pictures appear before anyone has heard of him. William S. Paton is a case in point. His photographs have now been re produced in a great variety of publ...

Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67

01 September 1972 Comments Main paper Part 8 Yellow-browed Warbler and Richard's Pipit This series now turns to two Asiatic species which are of regular occurrence in western Europe; they further have in common a recent upsurge of British and Irish records. The general introduction to these p...

The unprecedented westward migration of Curlew Sandpipers in autumn 1969

01 September 1972 Comments Main paper The Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea has long been regarded in Britain and Ireland as a passage migrant whose numbers fluctuate widely from year to year (Witherby et al. 1938-41, Nisbet and Vine 1956, Minton 1970). The passage in autumn 1969 was on a ...

Recent reports

01 September 1972 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during most of June was little better than that of the second half of May--a seemingly endless series of Atlantic depressions (nine major systems, in fact) bringing cold, cloudy co...

Recent reports and News

01 September 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Notes

01 September 1959 Comments Notes Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) have been known to breed on the Flannan Isles, some 20 miles west of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, since 1904 ( W . Eagle Clarke, Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1905, pp. 8-19 and 80-86). However, apart from the discovery of colo...

Obituaries: Gustav Kramer (1910-1959), James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959), John Hugh Owen (1877-1959)

01 September 1959 Comments Obituaries personal friend to many of us but also a serious blow to ornithology and to international science. To many ornithologists he was mainly known through his pioneer studies in bird navigation--which were both original and penetrating--but he did equally outs...

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British bird-photographers 15: William S. Paton

Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67

The unprecedented westward migration of Curlew Sandpipers in autumn 1969

Recent reports

Recent reports and News

Notes

Obituaries: Gustav Kramer (1910-1959), James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959), John Hugh Owen (1877-1959)

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