Recent reports

01 July 1973
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary is concerned with March and April, with a separate analysis of arrivals of some commoner migrants and summer visitors. The first week of March was wet generally, but from about...
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News and comment

01 July 1973
Comments News and comment A.O.U. bird name changes The Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union assumes one function that its British counterpart does not--namely, the determination of official vernacular names. In the...
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Reviews

01 July 1973
Comments Reviews The Naturalist in the Isle of Man. By Larch S. Garrad. David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972.234 pages; 29 photographs; 12 maps. £3.75. To one whose earlier and more leisurely days were spent dabbling in Manx natural history and folk-culture, ...
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Notes

01 July 1973
Comments Notes Buzzard and Golden Eagle feeding on other avian predators On 2nd July 1972, near Appin, Argyll, we found an unusual food item at a nest of Buzzards Buteo buteo. Beside the nearly fledged young Buzzard were the fresh remains of a young Tawny Owl...
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