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01 October 1970 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report summarises the records for September 1970 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. While an anticyclone persisted over the Azores until 17th, a series of depres...

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01 October 1970 Comments News and comment Annual Conference The Annual Conference of the British Trust for Ornithology was held at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 4th to 6th December 1970, and the wide range of subjects discussed demonstrated the many-sided outlook of the...

Reviews

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Notes

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British bird-photographers. 13. Pamela Harrison

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Numbers and distribution of Long-tailed Ducks wintering in northern Europe

01 October 1970 Comments Main paper During the last 25 or 30 years the Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis has decreased considerably as a breeding species in Scandinavia and is stated to have done so also as a winter-visitor in the southern Baltic (Curry-Lindahl 1957, 1958, 1959, i960). In ...

Direct effects of rain on birds: a review

01 October 1970 Comments Main paper The direct effects of rain on birds is a subject to which no more than passing attention has yet been given. This review is an attempt to summarise the scattered information in the literature and to draw some general conclusions. It is concerned particula...

Obituary: Wilfrid Backhouse Alexander (1885-1965)

01 March 1966 Comments Obituaries As was briefly recorded in our January issue, Wilfrid Backhouse Alexander died at Parkstone, Dorset, on 18th December 1965. He was one of the new team of editors who took up the task of running British Birds after the early death of his friend B. W. Tu...

Recent reports: January and February 1966

01 March 1966 Comments News and comment (These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated]records) This brief summary is primarily concerned with January and February 1966. Several American species included an American Wigeon Anas americana on the Moray Firth near Inverness from 30th Dece...

News and comment

01 March 1966 Comments News and comment National Nature Week.--Probably no further reminder is necessary that next month will see the Council for Nature's well publicised second National Nature Week, to be held from 23rd to 30th April. Local natural history societies, county naturalists' trusts...

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