Recent reports and news

01 January 1962 Comments News and comment [These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] Our last summary reviewed the occurrences of unusual Passerines and of all American species from early August to November, against a background of the more striking movements of common land ...
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Notes

01 January 1962 Comments Notes G o l d e n E a g l e a t t a c k i n g Reindeer.--With reference to the recent papers by Dr. K. Curry-Lindahl and Dr. G. Bergman on the food and feeding habits of birds of prey in Fenno-Scandia (Brit, Birds, 54: 297-306, 307-320), it may be of interest t...
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Letters

01 October 1958 Comments Letters EGGS D I S A P P E A R I N G F R O M P E R E G R I N E E Y R I E S S I R S , -- T h e paper by D r . D . A. Ratcliffe on " B r o k e n eggs in Peregrine eyries" (antea, pp. 23-29) has greatly interested me, as it seems to throw considerable light on past ...
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Notes

01 October 1958 Comments Notes Killdeer in Cornwall.--On 26th December 1957, a bird was accidently shot during a snipe shoot in a small marsh on the edge of Trembleath W o o d , St. Columb Major, near Newquay, Cornwall. It was sent to the British Museum (Natural History) where it was f...
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