News and comment

01 August 1969 Comments News and comment National farming and conservation conference It is fashionable to berate farmers for such practices as hedge removal, tree felling and the use of chemicals. Yet can a farm be managed in a way that pleases both economist and conservationist ? This was the ...
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Letters

01 August 1969 Comments Letters White-rumped Swifts in Morocco I was very interested in the recent correspondence concerning the White-rumped Swifts Apus caffer in southern Spain and particularly in P. G. C. Bmdenell-Bruce's suggestion that ornithologists visiting north-west Africa shou...
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Reviews

01 August 1969 Comments Reviews A Regional Guide to the Birds of Scotland. By W. Kenneth Richmond. Constable, London, 1968. 252 p a g e s ; frontispiece and 54 black-and-white photographic plates; 15 maps. 25s. Mr Richmond's Regional Guide will by now have been bought by many people and...
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Notes

01 August 1969 Comments Notes Overland migrations of Common Scoters The Handbook notes that Common Scoters Melanitta nigra occur on inland waters 'in small numbers irregularly but fairly often' and that such records 'are too frequent . . . during quite settled weather to be dismissed ...
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Recent reports

01 August 1969 Comments News and comment June often sees a continuation of the May pattern of southern vagrants, these occurring quite separately from arrivals of any numbers of commoner species. June 1969 was no exception, though there were rather fewer rarities of this kind than in some other ...
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Reviews

01 October 1947 Comments Reviews More Birds of the Day. By Eric Hosking and Cyril Newberry. (Collins, London, 1946). 125 6d. net. The great popularity of t h e authors' Birds of the Day has led t h e m to follow this up with a sequel providing a no less admirable picture gallery of Briti...
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Notes

01 October 1947 Comments Notes ON June 22nd, 1947, in a wood just outside Calais, I had a good view of a male Golden Oriole (Oriolus 0. oriolus), sitting in sunlight on a bare twig of a lombardy poplar, about 30 feet from the ground. It called continuously for about eight minutes. The...
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