Letters

01 May 1976
Comments Letters The continuing slaughter of birds of prey in Britain Your recent editorial (Brit. Birds, 68: 481-483) on the World Conference on Birds of Prey, organised by the International Council for Bird Preservation in Vienna in October 1975, stimulates t...
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Reviews

01 May 1976
Comments Reviews Flamingos. Edited by Janet Kear and Nicole Duplaix-Hall. T, & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1975. 246 pages; seven colour plates; 48 black-and-white plates; numerous drawings, maps and diagrams, £8.00. In July 1973 an international gathering ...
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Notes

01 May 1976
Comments Notes Reactions of Goldeneyes to boating Until 1966 Chasewater (Cannock Reservoir), Staffordshire, held fewer than ten wintering Goldeneyes Bucephala clangula. In subsequent winters higher numbers have been recorded. Although the reasons for this inc...
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View: A price for conservation?

01 May 1976
Comments Main paper Colin Tubbs is an Assistant Regional Officer for the Nature Conservancy Council and author of 'The New Forest--an ecological history' {ig6g) and 'The Buzzard' (1974)- His research interests include interpretation of the structure of woodland and other ...
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News and comment

01 January 1966
Comments News and comment Change in chairmanship of Bird Ringing Committee.---The retirement of Sir Landsborough Thomson as chairman of the Ringing and Migration Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology marks the end of an association which goes back to the very beginning of...
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Letters

01 January 1966
Comments Letters Birds trapped by sludge or m u d Sirs,--I was most interested to read the note by G. L. Webber {Brit. Birds, 5 8: 296-297) on 'Birds trapped by sludge on a sewage farm'. I have found at Freckleton sewage farm and various other sites in Lancashire, includi...
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Reviews

01 January 1966
Comments Reviews The Life of the Robin. By David Lack. Drawings by Robert Gillmor. Witherby, London, 1965 (revised edition). 240 pages; numerous line drawings. 30s. Of the scientific bird books published in the last 2 5 years, The Life of the Robin is surely the most read...
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Notes

01 January 1966
Comments Notes Heron swallowing female Blackbird.--In early September 1965 a late brood of three young Herons Ardea cinerea seemingly feil from their nest in the grounds of Viewfield House, near Portree, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire. They appeared on the lawn where Col...
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