Recent Report

01 November 1976
Comments News and comment A number of changes in this feature will take effect from this issue onwards. The editorial board has long been aware that the monthly reports of bird news have been sadly late in appearing; indeed, the title 'Recent reports' was dropped almost th...
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June and July report

01 November 1976
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records SHEARWATERS TO DUCKS A few Cory's Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea were noted off Portland (Dorset) during June, while at Seaton Sluice (Northumberland) 23 Sooty Shearwaters...
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News and Comment

01 November 1976
Comments News and comment Anniversaries 6th November 1976 is the 30th anniversary of the Wildfowl Trust, which has been notably successful in its specialised field. It has been in the forefront of many campaigns to safeguard wetlands, designed to bring awareness to bird...
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Line Drawings

01 November 1976
Comments Editorials The covers of the twelve issues of volume 70 of British Birds will feature line drawings instead of photographs. We shall welcome submission of sketches by amateur and professional artists alike. We also intend to use more drawings in the main body of ...
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Request for information

01 November 1976
Comments Editorials Wing-tagged Goosanders About 270 young Goosanders Mergus merganser have been trapped and ringed in Northumberland in recent years. In 1976, in addition to ringing, wing-tagging was started. Details of any sightings of wing-tagged Goosanders wil...
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Letters

01 November 1976
Comments Letters The Coto Doñana In 'News and comment' in April 1966 (Brit. Birds, 59: 163-164), it was announced that H. E. Axell, then warden of Minsmere, Suffolk, had been seconded for two months by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to the reser...
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Reviews

01 November 1976
Comments Reviews The Birds of Dublin and Wicklow. Edited by Clive Hutchinson. Irish Wildbird Conservancy, Dublin, 1975. 132 pages; i s black-and-white photographs; 13 maps and diagrams. £1.75  A book dealing with the birds of a county or region must satis...
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Notes

01 November 1976
Comments Notes Trembling movements of House Martin when nest-building On 6th June 1975, near South Gorley, Hampshire, I watched at close range with binoculars a House Martin Delichon urbica building its nest, which was in the early stages of construction. The...
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