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13 March 2014 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers February 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. There were three surprises in an otherwise uneventful month. An unidentified albatross Diomedeasp was repor...

News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment N e w National Nature Reserve in Suffolk Walberswick, on the Suffolk coast, is well known to ornithologists chiefly because of Westwood Marshes, one of the largest reed-beds in Britain, created in 1940 when former grazing land was flooded as part of the c...

Reviews

13 March 2014 Comments Reviews Handbook of the Birds of Cyprus and Migrants of the Middle East. By David A. Bannerman and W. Mary Bannerman. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1971. 237 pages; 27 colour plates; one fold-out map. £3.00. A Check-list of the Birds of Cyprus. By P. F. Stewa...

Notes

13 March 2014 Comments Notes Partridge plunging into water At about midday on 9th February 1972, we witnessed a remarkable piece of behaviour by a Partridge Perdix perdix at Fairham Brook, a tributary of the Trent at Clifton, Nottingham. At the point where this occurred the brook flo...

An October to remember on St Agnes in 1971

13 March 2014 Comments Main paper Although reporting on migration in the Isles of Scilly has recently improved with the publication since 1970 of a separate record for the archipelago (in the Isles of Scilly Bird Report), narrative description or discussion of the many remarkable occurren...

More examples of the best recent work

13 March 2014 Comments Main paper Plates 33-40 This is the thirteenth annual selection of contemporary photography, keeping on permanent record some of the finest current work. More photographs were submitted than ever before and the 14 reproduced on plates 33-40 are selected from a total...

Hooded Warbler in the Isles of Scilly: a species new to Britain and Ireland

13 March 2014 Comments Open Access At about 16.00 hours on 20th September 1970, Clive Totty and P. G. Williams flushed a green and yellow warbler-like bird from the sedge around the Pool, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. It immediately dived back into cover, but they flushed it twice more bef...

Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67

13 March 2014 Comments Main paper Part 7 Mediterranean Gull, White-winged Black Tern and Gull-billed Tern This series now turns to three species of the Laridae. The sources of bias in the data presented here and other points relevant to the whole series were discussed in the general intro...

Mediterranean Gulls in Hampshire in 1970-71

13 March 2014 Comments Main paper Adult Mediterranean Gull JLarus melanocephalus, Hampshire, spring 1969: ringed as a chick in East Germany in 1966, it reared young with a female Blackheaded L. ridibundus at Needs Oar Point two years later and came back briefly in ii)6c)(Brit.Birds, 65:6...

Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 November 1984 Comments Other 'If I read him correctly, Mr. F. Stubbs (antea, p. 155) seems to think that song is nothing more than the ebullition of superfluous energy. That is to say that it plays as much or as little part in the life of a bird as steam escaping into the air from...

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