News and comment

01 March 1967
Comments News and comment Formation of ECHO Institute.--ECHO (L'Institut pour l'Ettregistrement et Etudes des cnants et Cfis d'oiseaux) is a non-profit-making, scientific body recently formed on the initiative of J.-C, Roche for the recording and study of bird voice. One of its ob...
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Requests for information

01 March 1967
Comments Editorials Autumn and winter influx of Rough-legged Buzzards.---Since October 1966 unusual numbers of Rough-legged Buzzards Buteo lagopus have been widely scattered in eastern and south-eastern counties with some also well inland and others as far west as Cornwall a...
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Notes

01 March 1967
Comments Notes Lesser Kestrels feeding after dark on insects attracted to artificial light.--At dusk each evening during 13th- 15th May 1964, at Titov Veles, Yugoslavia, I watched up to 43 Lesser Kestrels Falco naumanni hawking for moths and other insects in the vicinit...
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Reviews

01 May 1954
Comments Reviews Report on Dorset Birds, 1951. Edited by K. B. Rooke. Now 2S. Report on Dorset Birds, 1952, Edited by K B.. Rooke. 2s. 9d. The Wildfowl and Waders of Poole Harbour. By A. J. Bull. (1953). 2S. 9d. (All reprinted from Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist, and Arch. Soc, v...
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Reviews

01 May 1954
Comments Reviews The Birds of Scotland: Their History, Distribution, and Migration, By Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh & London, 1953). £3. 3s. THIS important contribution to British ornithology has at length appeared in two...
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