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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Recent reports and news

01 January 1962
Comments News and comment [These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] Our last summary reviewed the occurrences of unusual Passerines and of all American species from early August to November, against a background of the more striking movements of common land ...
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Notes

01 January 1962
Comments Notes G o l d e n E a g l e a t t a c k i n g Reindeer.--With reference to the recent papers by Dr. K. Curry-Lindahl and Dr. G. Bergman on the food and feeding habits of birds of prey in Fenno-Scandia (Brit, Birds, 54: 297-306, 307-320), it may be of interest t...
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