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01 September 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was generally a cold, wet month, with an interesting period between 8th and i ith as a depression moved east across Britain bringing rain and low cloud with east and north-east winds. Many...

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01 September 1975 Comments News and comment Grants for nature conservation The Nature Conservancy Council announced on i ith August that it had just awarded 90 grants, totalling £50,000, to encourage nature conservation by voluntary bodies, local authorities and private individuals. The large...

Recent reports

01 December 1964 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary outlines the rarer passerines in the two months from 19th September to 19th November, thus overlapping slightly with the previous one {Brit. Birds, 57: 441-444); the more regula...

News and comment

01 December 1964 Comments News and comment launches a major appeal.--The British Trust for Ornithology has launched an appeal aimed at raising £25,000. It is made in a brochure (splendidly designed by Robert Gillmor) which gives a concise history of the Trust and outlines its need for a sou...

Review

01 December 1964 Comments Reviews The Black-tailed Godwit. By F. Haverschmidt. Brill, Leiden, 1963. v i i i + 1 2 0 pages; frontispiece, 17 black-and-white photographs, 1 drawing and 2 maps. N o price marked. The author intended this book for ordinary bird-lovers and general ornithologist...

Notes

01 December 1964 Comments Notes Apparent anting by Kestrel.--On 22nd September 1962 a friend and I were driving along the main road between Port Clarence and Seaton Carew, Co. Durham, when we saw a female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus fly up from an adjacent strip of rough grassland and ali...

Pallas's Warblers in Britain in 1963

01 December 1964 Comments Main paper U P TO 1963 Pallas's Warbler Phylloscopnsproregulus has been found in the British Isles on only seven occasions, all in October and November on the English east coast between Northumberland and Kent. During late October and early November 1963, however, a...

The influx of Cranes in October 1963

01 December 1964 Comments Main paper Cranes Megalornis grus recorded in Britain. Even so, in the five years from 1958 to 1962 only about 50 were reported and the largest number together was six. Thus the influx of some hundreds of these birds towards the end of October 1963 was unique in mod...

British bird-photographers 3. J. B. and S. Bottomley

01 December 1964 Comments Main paper photographic team. They take turns in hides, and in the dark room develop the negatives together before one operates the enlarger while the other makes the prints. Brian was born in 1919 in Halifax, Yorkshire, and on leaving school joined the Army. During...

Crossbills in Britain and Ireland in 1963

01 December 1964 Comments Main paper T H E I R R U P T I O N S O F Crossbills Loxia spp. into Britain in the summer and autumn of 1962 were described by Williamson (1963a), the account being supplemented by a list of records up to the end of the year (Williamson 1963b). The midsummer arrival...

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Recent reports

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Pallas's Warblers in Britain in 1963

The influx of Cranes in October 1963

British bird-photographers 3. J. B. and S. Bottomley

Crossbills in Britain and Ireland in 1963

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