Recent reports

01 April 1975
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records December was the mildest for many years, dominated by westerly weather from the Atlantic. An anticyclone which persisted to the south of Britain caused depressions to move across on...
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News and comment

01 April 1975
Comments News and comment Waterway vandalism It was with considerable alarm that naturalists learned recently that the Severn-Trent Water Authority proposed to introduce a new byelaw compelling owners of lands fronting a river to cut down all trees, shrubs, reeds and ot...
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Letters

01 April 1975
Comments Letters Effects of agricultural change on birds I have found the correspondence between Derek Barber, and Dr R. K. Murton and N. J. Westwood {Brit. Birds, 67: 395-396, 485-487), of considerable interest, for I strongly suspect that hedgerows have,...
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Reviews

01 April 1975
Comments Reviews Ocean Wanderers. The migratory sea birds of the world. By Ronald M. Lockley. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1974. 168 pages; 9 colour and 39 black-and-white photographs; 22 maps. £4.50. This picture is painted on a broad canvas. The author...
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Notes

01 April 1975
Comments Notes Kestrel apparently attempting to catch Goldfish In 1974 a Kestrel Falco tinnunculus nested in a beech coppice near my house near Blackboys, East Sussex, and frequently hunted for beetles and mice in the ha-ha which divides my garden from a fiel...
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Recent reports

01 June 1969
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers April 1969 and all dates refer to that month. An annual feature of April (and, more particularly, May) is the occurrence of vagrants from further south in Europe, including...
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Miscellaneous

01 June 1969
Comments Editorials Colour-marked Sandwich Terns In connection with the final year of a study of post-fledging dispersal in the Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis, a large number of chicks have been marked with white and red colour rings; some have also been given two-colour ...
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