Letters

01 May 1971
Comments Letters Feather wear in Guillemots In view of R. J. Kennedy's note on feather wear in Guillemots Uria aalge (Brit. Birds, 63: 34-36) and the follow-up in this issue (pages 229-230), I should like to point out that a good many of the auks involved in the disaster ...
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Notes

01 May 1971
Comments Notes Display-flight of Sparrowhawks I was interested in the note by R. A. Hume and P. L. Garvey on the possible display-flight of four Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus on 25th January 1970 (Brit Birds, 63: 132). The unusual features were the number involved and th...
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Recent reports

01 May 1971
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The last summary (Brit, Birds, 64: 135-136) covered the rarer species and most of the unseasonal summer visitors in December 1970 and January 1971. This one deals with the remaining reports in...
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News and Comment

01 May 1971
Comments News and comment Birds of Estuaries Enquiry This joint project of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was outlined in 'News and comment' last year (Brit. Birds, 63: 183). The first report of the pilot survey, covering the p...
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Letters

01 December 1955
Comments Letters Further remarks on discoloration in House Sparrows Sirs,--The observations of C. J. O. Harrison (Brit. Birds, 56: 296-297) on 'industrial' discoloration in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and other birds prompt us to record information on an allied pro...
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Reviews

01 December 1955
Comments Reviews A Mosaic of Islands. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1963. 183 pages index; 22 black-and-white photographs; text-drawings and m - p s . 21s. The more remote islands around our coast have always held a great f...
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Notes

01 December 1955
Comments Notes Peregrines rearing young Kestrels.--On n t h April 1963 W. N. Charles and I flushed a Peregrine {Fako peregrinus) from its eyrie in an old Raven (Corvus corax) nest in the Dumfriesshire hills. There were four eggs, one of which we took (under licence) for...
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