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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Obituary - James Maurice Harrison, DSC, MRCS, LRCP (1892-1971)

13 March 2014 Comments Obituaries James Harrison was born in the reign of Queen Victoria in the year of Gladstone's fourth ministry. He died nearly eighty years later, having lived through a period of great scientific and industrial developments, two major world wars and extensive social ...

Yellow-vented Great Spotted Woodpecker

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Martin Gilbert

01 June 2010 Comments News and comment Martin Gilbert, a popular member of the UK birding scene, who was responsible for finding the Cley Slender-billed Gulls Chroicocephalus genei in 1987 and was the guardian of the nesting Black-winged Stilts Himantopus himantopus at Frodsh...

Dick Brown (1935-2010)

01 June 2010 Comments News and comment Richard George Bolney (Dick) Brown was one of the most intelligent and charming of the Oxford ornithologists of the 1950s. A tall, lanky, sociable figure, for decades no international conference was complete without him in the bar. He was born in Wolverha...

A new era on Fair Isle

01 June 2010 Comments News and comment The new Fair Isle Bird Observatory is, at the time of writing, almost finished. The £4m+ project, which contributors to BB have helped in a small way by donating their fees for photographs (including the front covers throughout 200...

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