News and comment

01 September 1972 Comments News and comment Foulness wildlife study When the Foulness area was chosen for the Third London Airport, the Government promised that funds would be available for a study of the airport's impact on the wildlife environment of the region. Long after some of us had given up...
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Reviews

01 September 1972 Comments Reviews Gulls i n Britain. By Richard Vaughan. Witherby, London, 1972. 96 p a g e s ; 54 black-and-white plates. £1.75. This is a pleasant book. Gulls are highly photogenic, but few of us who walk through a gullery firing off a camera in all directions prod...
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Notes

01 September 1972 Comments Notes Bewick's Swans feeding on waste potatoes and other agricultural crops Bewick's Swans Cygnus bewickii were present on the North Slob, Wexford, from 27th October 1971 to 10th March 1972. The maximum count was 131 on n t h February and the average from 17th ...
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Recent reports

01 September 1972 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during most of June was little better than that of the second half of May--a seemingly endless series of Atlantic depressions (nine major systems, in fact) bringing cold, cloudy co...
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Recent reports

01 April 1968 Comments News and comment Several Red-necked Grebes Podiceps ruficollis were seen inland in London, Essex, Berkshire and Huntingdon in January-February and some notable concentrations off Northumberland included peaks of 43 at Budle on 28th January and 23 at Bamburgh on 17th-! 8th...
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News and comments

01 April 1968 Comments News and comment Proposed Seychelle Islands reserve.--The recent threats to Aldabra called forth united protests from many nations, and it is pleasant now to find international co-operation over another Indian Ocean project. For the past seven years the International C...
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