Letters

01 May 1976
Comments Letters The continuing slaughter of birds of prey in Britain Your recent editorial (Brit. Birds, 68: 481-483) on the World Conference on Birds of Prey, organised by the International Council for Bird Preservation in Vienna in October 1975, stimulates t...
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Reviews

01 May 1976
Comments Reviews Flamingos. Edited by Janet Kear and Nicole Duplaix-Hall. T, & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1975. 246 pages; seven colour plates; 48 black-and-white plates; numerous drawings, maps and diagrams, £8.00. In July 1973 an international gathering ...
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Notes

01 May 1976
Comments Notes Reactions of Goldeneyes to boating Until 1966 Chasewater (Cannock Reservoir), Staffordshire, held fewer than ten wintering Goldeneyes Bucephala clangula. In subsequent winters higher numbers have been recorded. Although the reasons for this inc...
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View: A price for conservation?

01 May 1976
Comments Main paper Colin Tubbs is an Assistant Regional Officer for the Nature Conservancy Council and author of 'The New Forest--an ecological history' {ig6g) and 'The Buzzard' (1974)- His research interests include interpretation of the structure of woodland and other ...
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Recent reports

01 January 1965
Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is primarily concerned with the more unusual non-passerines from mid-September to the fourth week of November and thus overlaps with that in last October's issue (Brit. Birds, 5...
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News and comment

01 January 1965
Comments News and comment Annual Report of the Nature Conservancy.--The sea around Britain and Ireland is now substantially contaminated by organo-chlorine pesticides. This is revealed in the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Nature Conservancy (H.M.S.O., 13s.), which covers the year...
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Letters

01 January 1965
Comments Letters Redstarts nesting on the ground Sirs,--J, M. Bayldon, in his note on a Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus nesting on the ground {Brit. Birds, 51: 365), suggests that this is an unusual occurrence. However, L. Siivonen (Orn. Fenn., 12: 89-99) n a s aiven rea...
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Reviews

01 January 1965
Comments Reviews Instructions to Young Ornithologists. V, Birds' Nests and Eggs. By C. J. O. Harrison. Museum Press, London, 1964. 130 pages; 17 photographic illustrations; 8 line-drawings and figures. 15s. Many modern bird-watchers' knowledge of breeding biology is rathe...
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Notes

01 January 1965
Comments Notes Methods of distinguishing first-year and adult Shelducks in the field.--The separation of first-year and adult Shelducks Tadorna tadorna in the field has long been very conjectural and there is still a tendency to describe almost any spring or summer floc...
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