News and comment

01 November 1966
Comments News and comment World conference of the I.C.B.P.--The 14th world conference of the International Council for Bird Preservation, held in Cambridge from n t h to 15th July 1966, was attended by representatives from 31 different countries. A wide range of topics were discus...
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Letters

01 November 1966
Comments Letters Fault-bars as a means of ageing birds Sirs,---Last year I read a letter by C. J. Mead on the ageing of birds by means of fault-bars (Brit. Birds, 58: 227-228), in which he referred to the work of W. E. Glegg who noted fault-bars on the tails of 737 bird s...
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Reviews

01 November 1966
Comments Reviews Population Studies of Birds. By David Lack. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1966. 341 pages; 1 photographic plate; many textfigures. 63s. Dr. Lack's first book on animal populations, The Natural Regulation of Animal Numbers (1954), embraced all animals, but most...
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Recent reports

01 February 1965
Comments News and comment (These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is concerned with the two months from late November to late January. It thus follows on after those in the December and January issues {Brit. Birds, 57: 523-524; 58: 31-32) and ...
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News and Comment

01 February 1965
Comments News and comment Ten years of ' T h e Ring'--The King, a journal devoted to the broad international aspects of bird-ringing, recently had its tenth anniversary. The first edition of this quarterly, -which is edited by Dr. W, Rydzcwski and published by the Polish Zoologica...
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Request for information

01 February 1965
Comments Editorials Past breeding success of Golden Eagles in Scotland.--In view of the disquieting report by Dr. J. D. Lockic and Dr. D. A. Ratcliffe of a marked decline in the nesting success of Golden Eagles Aquih chrysaefos in a part of western Scotland (Brii. Birds, 57:...
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