Notes

01 November 2004
Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...
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Request for information

01 June 1968
Comments Editorials Survey of Stonechats in Wales.--A survey of the breeding population of the Stonechat Saxicola torquata in Wales is being carried out during 1968. County recorders are acting as local organisers in most areas (see list in Brit. Birds, 61: 191) and observer...
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Recent reports

01 June 1968
Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with April 1968 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. A few May reports have been included where they seem particularly relevant to Ap...
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News and comments

01 June 1968
Comments News and comment Birds and aircraft.--The current issue of B.T.O. News contains a discussion by Dr. W. R. P. Bourne of the problem of collisions between birds and aircraft. This hazard is not new, but is becoming more serious as aircraft speeds increase and jet engines re...
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Letters

01 June 1968
Comments Letters The Bass Rock albatross Sirs,--Having worked upon four species of albatross for a number of years {Polar Record, 10: 145-146; 11: 282-283; I 2 : 601-602), I was interested to read George Waterston's account {Brit. Birds, 61: 22-27) of the Black-browed Alb...
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Review

01 June 1968
Comments Reviews Birdwatching: a Guide to European Birds. By Bertel B m u n . Illustrated by Philippe Degrave. Paul Hamlyn, London, 1967. 160 pages with 350 illustrations in colour. 5s. The concept of this paperback is that of a handy comprehensive European bird-book at a...
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Ospreys in action

01 June 1968
Comments Main paper The Osprey Pandion haliaetus was featured in our series of 'less familiar birds' in 1956 (Brit Birds, 49: 489-492, plates 65-72); the photographs then, by M, D. England, showed the bird perched, the pair at the nest, the nest site, the habitat and other a...
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