September reports

01 December 1974
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. September was, like August, dominated by weather from the North Atlantic, as a seemingly unending series of deep depressions crossed Ireland and Britain. Severe gales occurred early in the...
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News and comment

01 December 1974
Comments News and comment The Great Oystercatcher Robbery For the second successive winter the Ministry of Agriculture and the South Wales Sea Fisheries Committee are organising a major cull among Oystercatchers wintering in the Burry Inlet, south Wales. This is being d...
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Reviews

01 December 1974
Comments Reviews The Seabirds of Britain and Ireland. By S. Cramp, W. R. P. Bourne and D. Saunders. Collins, London, 1974. 287 pages; four colour and eight black-and-white plates; 32 maps, linedrawings. £3.50. This long-awaited book gives an excellent survey o...
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Letters

01 December 1974
Comments Letters Eye colour of the Hen Harrier D. I. M. Wallace's remarks (Brit. Birds, 65:358-359) on the eye colour of an immature of the American subspecies of the Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus hudsonius at Cley, Norfolk (see Brit. Birds, 64: 537-542), were confusing a...
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Notes

01 December 1974
Comments Notes Hen Harriers' hunting behaviour in south-west Scotland Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus are generally regarded as solitary hunters. For example, J. J. and F. C. Craighead (1956, Hawks, Owls and Wildlife) found that in winter Marsh Hawks C. c. hudsonius had ...
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The Voice of the Barn Owl

01 December 1974
Comments Main paper In their descriptions of the voice of the Barn Owl Tyto alba, the majority of books make no more than vague mention of eerie screams, hisses and snores, with perhaps some reference to the twittering sounds that can be heard at closer quarters. Apart fr...
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Recent reports

01 June 1969
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers April 1969 and all dates refer to that month. An annual feature of April (and, more particularly, May) is the occurrence of vagrants from further south in Europe, including...
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Miscellaneous

01 June 1969
Comments Editorials Colour-marked Sandwich Terns In connection with the final year of a study of post-fledging dispersal in the Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis, a large number of chicks have been marked with white and red colour rings; some have also been given two-colour ...
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News and comment

01 June 1969
Comments News and comment Maltese birds There was a time, not so long ago, when the average British birdwatcher confined his attention to the birds of his own islands. In this affluent age, however, with faster (though not cheaper!) transport, an increasing number travel abroad, e...
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