Recent reports

01 January 1969 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary is concerned mainly with January 1969 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. It was a rather more eventful period than January 1968: as well as the usual cro...
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News and comment

01 January 1969 Comments News and comment Zoos and endangered species Zoological gardens are popular with the general public, and we live in an era when small privately-owned zoos are proliferating, both in this country and abroad. There has to be justification for the resulting traffic in largel...
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Miscellaneous

01 January 1969 Comments Editorials After a successful start in 1968, the British Trust for Ornithology's ambitious project to map the breeding distribution of every species nesting in Britain and Ireland is now entering upon the second of its five years of field work. It is already clear t...
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Letters

01 January 1969 Comments Letters White-lumped Swifts in southern Spain During 1964-67 a number of observations were made on swifts with white rumps in southern Spain, and in 1966 and 1967 breeding was proved; the species was identified by me and others as Apus affinis (Little Swift), the...
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Reviews

01 January 1969 Comments Reviews The Problem of Birds as Pests. Edited by R. K. Mutton and E. N . Wright. Institute of Biology Symposia No. 17. Academic Press, London, 1968. xiv -f- 254 pages. 70s. This report of a recent Institute of Biology symposium deals with the relationship of bird...
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Notes

01 January 1969 Comments Notes Mute Swans sunbathing On 22nd August 1968, on the Lancashire side of Windermere, I saw a family of five Mute Swans Cygnus olor on a gravel bank. They were quite tame and did not move off when I sat down ten yards away. The sun then came out and they start...
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Recent reports

01 January 1969 Comments News and comment Among the most interesting records of the winter were several Little Bustards Otis tetrax. Unlike the Great Bustard 0. tarda, this south Eurasian and north African species has never been known to breed in Britain and the grand total of records in these is...
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News and comment

01 January 1969 Comments News and comment The vectors of foot-and-mouth disease Foot-and-mouth is not indigenous to our islands, yet it appears here all too often. The means by which the disease spreads have been the subject of much controversy, and farmers in particular have been only too ready ...
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