Recent reports

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was generally a cold, wet month, with an interesting period between 8th and i ith as a depression moved east across Britain bringing rain and low cloud with east and north-east winds. Many...
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News and comment

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment Grants for nature conservation The Nature Conservancy Council announced on i ith August that it had just awarded 90 grants, totalling £50,000, to encourage nature conservation by voluntary bodies, local authorities and private individuals. The large...
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Reviews

01 February 1929 Comments Reviews Miss TURNER has written a very entertaining and at the same time ornithologically interesting account of her experiences as official " w a t c h e r " for Scolt Head during 1924 and 1925. Her trials were many, esentials such as water and fuel were hard to...
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Letter

01 February 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--After reading carefully Mr. Coward's article (antea, p . 134) and Col. Ryves's letter (antea, p. 171), I would like to suggest an explanation of wing-clapping which occurred to me years ago, after observing domestic Pigeons make this noise within a...
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