Recent reports

01 February 1968
Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary mainly concerns December, which is generally a quiet month. This year, too, most observers kept away from agricultural land because of the foot-andmouth epidemic and so it is no...
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News and comments

01 February 1968
Comments News and comment Conference on local bird reports.--About 70 editors and editorial representatives of some 50 local and regional bird reports attended a conference held at Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 15th to 17th September 1967. The conference was only the second of its ki...
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Request for information

01 February 1968
Comments Editorials Distribution and numbers of Collared Doves.--In 1965 Robert Hudson traced the spread of the Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto in Britain and Ireland from the time of the first breeding record in 1955 up to the end of 1964 {Brit. Birds, 58: 105-139). He ...
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Letters

01 February 1968
Comments Letters Width of tail-band of immature Mediterranean Gulls Sirs,--As the plumage of immature Mediterranean Gulls Larus melanocephalus was described in some detail by P. J. Grant and R. E. Scott (Brit. Birds, 60: 365-368), it seems a pity that they did not mention...
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Reviews

01 February 1968
Comments Reviews Where to Watch Birds. By John Gooders. Andre Deutsch, London, 1967. 313 p a g e s ; 12 photographs and 27 sketch maps. 30s. As Roger Peterson writes in the introduction to this book, 'Bird watching . . . has come of age. It is moving beyond the stage of i...
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Notes

01 February 1968
Comments Notes Bill-colour of Garganey ducklings.--On 22nd July 1967, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, I came upon a female Garganey Anas querquedula with two half-grown ducklings. Not having seen ducklings of this species before, I took special note of their colouring. In...
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