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List of country and area recorders in Britain and Ireland

01 March 1967 Comments Editorials SEVERAL READERS have suggested that we publish a list of the names and addresses of the county bird recorders and editors. Those who are collating records for special analyses often need such a list and sometimes they approach the wrong persons or else fo...

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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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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...

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...

Food of Long-eared Owls in north-east Ireland

01 March 1967 Comments Main paper Long-eared Owl Asio otus is the most common owl in Ireland, detailed knowledge of the nature of its food is limited to a single analysis of pellets (L. E. Adams, in Standen 1897). Adams collected these, so far as is known, from the Ballycastle area, Co. A...

Studies of less familiar birds: 143. Subalpine Warbler

01 March 1967 Comments Main paper (Plates 13-16) T H E S K U L K I N G HABITS of the Subalpine Warbler Sylvia cantillans make it difficult to observe. The male is distinctively coloured, however, with unmarked throat and breast of bright chestnut shading to pale pinkish-buff on belly and ...

XIV International Ornithological Congress: Preliminary Announcement

01 May 1955 Comments Editorials It was decided at the close of the XIII International Ornithological Congress at Ithaca, New York, that the next Congress would be held in Great Britain in 1966, with Dr. David Lack as President. At a meeting of the British members of the International Or...

News and comments

01 May 1955 Comments News and comment Prize-winning films.--The B.B.C. and the Council for Nature recently announced the results of their jointly sponsored natural history film competition for amateurs. The joint winners of the £700 prize in the main class for a film suitable for televi...

Reviews

01 May 1955 Comments Reviews The Migrations of Birds. By Jean Dorst. Translated from the French by Constance D . Sherman. Heinemann, London, 1962. x i v + 4 7 6 pages; 131 figures in the text. 50s. The amateur migration enthusiast often longs for a comprehensive, readable book in Eng...

Notes

01 May 1955 Comments Notes Exceptional passage of Cory's Shearwaters off Co. Cork.--During the late afternoon of 10th August 1962 a routine sea-watch from a hundred feet above sea level at Pointanbullig, one of the southern points of Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, revealed an unusual...

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List of country and area recorders in Britain and Ireland

News and comment

Requests for information

Notes

Food of Long-eared Owls in north-east Ireland

Studies of less familiar birds: 143. Subalpine Warbler

XIV International Ornithological Congress: Preliminary Announcement

News and comments

Reviews

Notes

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