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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...

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01 October 1952 Comments Notes Magpies and Jays eating waspsStarling imitating telephone bellGreenfinch imitating RedstartChaffinch building in deserted Song Thrush's nest of the same seasonFly-catching by buntingsTawny Pipit in Essex...

Observations on the collection and burial of acorns by Jays in Hainault Forest

01 October 1952 Comments Main paper The Handbook states that the Jay (Gamdus glandarius) shares with several other Corvi&ee the habit of burying- surplus food. During the autumn of 1951, observations were made in Hainault Forest, in Essex, on the intensity of this habit with acorns. Althoug...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLIV. The Gull-billed Tern

01 October 1952 Comments Main paper (Plate 76). T H E photographs published this month form an appropriate accompaniment to the paper by G. A. Pyman and Major-General C. B. Wainwright on the first breeding in Britain of the Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica), an almost cosmopolitan bi...

On the Gull-billed Terns at "De Beer " near Hook-of-Holland in 1949

01 October 1952 Comments Main paper O N May 29th, 1949, A. M. van den Oord and the author found a nest with two eggs of the Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica) on the beach of " D e B e e r " near Hook-of-Holland. On June 19th another nest was found with two nestlings, and a third nest...

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