News and comment

01 August 1967
Comments News and comment Wildfowl counts in Northern Ireland.--One of the first tasks to be tackled by the Northern Ireland Ornithologists" Club when it was formed in October 1964 was the planning of a series of wildfowl counts in the Lough Neagh basin, along the lines of those o...
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Letters

01 August 1967
Comments Letters Red-headed Buntings in Britain and Ireland Sirs,--D. I. M. Wallace's recent review of 'Birds in Ireland during 1963-65' (Brit Birds, 60: 205-213) refers to the sixth and seventh Irish records of the Red-headed Bunting Emberi^a bruniceps in Co. Cork in Jun...
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Notes

01 August 1967
Comments Notes Hirundines taking winged insects from the surface of the sea.--With reference to another note of mine on Swallows Hirundo rustica taking winged insects from the surface of the sea off Tresco, Isles of Scilly, in September 1958 {Brit. Birds, 5 3: 200), I s...
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Recent Reports and News

01 November 1960
Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Letters

01 November 1960
Comments Letters "Kestrel pellets at a winter roost" Sirs,--I read with interest the paper by T. A. W. Davis on his examination of pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) at winter roosts in Pembrokeshire {Brit. Birds, 53: 281-284). May I, however, make one small correcti...
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Reviews

01 November 1960
Comments Reviews St. Kilda Summer. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Hutchinson, London, 1960. 224 p a g e s ; with photographs, drawings and maps. 25 s. For 27 years after its inhabitants had been evacuated at their own request, St. Kilda was visited only infrequ...
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