Recent reports

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This deals with January 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The only really significant weather feature in a fairly mild, wet month was a short spell of freezing north-east...
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News and comment

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment Golden Jubilee The International Council for Bird Preservation was formed in 1922, mainly through the foresight of an American, T. Gilbert Pearson, then president of what is now the National Audubon Society; the inaugural meeting was held in London on 20...
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Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
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Reviews

13 March 2014
Comments Reviews African Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins, London, 1971. 320 p a g e s ; 12 black-and-white plates. £2.25. This well-produced, smallish book covers the 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls which inhabit Africa. The author is, of course, a well-known...
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Notes

13 March 2014
Comments Notes Shags laying two clutches Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis have long been considered capable of producing two broods in one breeding season, but direct evidence of this is lacking (see The Handbook, vol 4; D. A. Bannerman, 1959, The Birds of the British Is...
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Reviews

01 May 1982
Comments Reviews The Birds of Wiltshire. Edited by John Buxton. Wiltshire Library and Museum Service, Trowbridge, 1981. 194 pages; 32 black-and-white plates; 116 line-drawings; 100 distribution maps. £5.50.  I have to admit that reading this book was like...
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Recent reports

01 May 1982
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records After the severe weather of December and January, February was very dull, but largely frost-free. Until 14th, south to westerly winds brought mild air in from the Atlantic. From 15th, the h...
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News and comment

01 May 1982
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' North Sea Bird Club We welcome the publication of the first report of the North Sea Bird Club, covering part of 1979 and all of 1980. It is a useful document, the m...
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Requests

01 May 1982
Comments Editorials Chough survey in 1982 In April, May and June 1982, there is ajoint IWC/BTO/RSPB census of the Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax. The last comprehensive survey was in 1963, which showed there to be no Choughs left in England, 11 pairs in Scotland, ...
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