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01 April 1976 Comments News and comment ...

Notes

01 April 1976 Comments Notes A further note on the wing-spreading of Black Storks In a recent note (Brit. Birds, 67: 236-237) M. D. England gave details of an unusual aspect of the feeding behaviour of some Black Storks Ciconia nigra in north-east Portugal. He described ho...

Waders water and mud

01 April 1976 Comments Main paper We have received a superb collection of black-and-white photo graphs of waders washing, walking, running, feeding and flying, taken by Brian and Sheila Bottomley, mostly in Cornwall. Eight are reproduced here and we hope in due course to publish furthe...

Owls killing and killed by other owls and raptors in Europe

01 April 1976 Comments Main paper It is well known that owls (Strigiformes) and diurnal raptors (Falconiformes) sometimes prey on one another, but the records have been scattered through the literature. Arising out of a study of the prey of certain owls, particularly Great Grey, Ural, ...

Ruddy Ducks in Britain

01 April 1976 Comments Main paper The Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis is one of five introduced birds (three waterfowl and two pheasants) that were admitted to the British and Irish list in 1971, when it was accepted that they had succeeded in establishing self-maintaining feral populati...

Identification of European treecreepers

01 April 1976 Comments Main paper Although its arrival as a British bird was widely announced in January 1972, the Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla was not admitted to the British and Irish list until 1975, on the basis of a vagrant trapped at Dungeness on 27th Septemb...

November and December reports

01 April 1976 Comments News and comment We received a report of a Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps which arrived at Carlingwark Loch, Castle Douglas (Dumfries & Galloway), in November and was still present in January, though unfortunately no further details are available. Three Manx...

List of county and regional recorders in Britain and Ireland

01 April 1968 Comments Editorials In March 1967 (Brit Birds, 60: 141-144) we published a list of the names and addresses of county and regional bird recorders and editors. Since that time, inevitably, there have been- a number of changes and, in particular, considerable developments in th...

Recent reports

01 April 1968 Comments News and comment Several Red-necked Grebes Podiceps ruficollis were seen inland in London, Essex, Berkshire and Huntingdon in January-February and some notable concentrations off Northumberland included peaks of 43 at Budle on 28th January and 23 at Bamburgh on 17th-! 8th...

News and comments

01 April 1968 Comments News and comment Proposed Seychelle Islands reserve.--The recent threats to Aldabra called forth united protests from many nations, and it is pleasant now to find international co-operation over another Indian Ocean project. For the past seven years the International C...

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