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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Recent reports

01 January 1971
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers October 1970, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. From 1st to 4th an anticyclone off Iberia and lows 'S' and 'U' moving rapidly across from Newfoundland broug...
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News and Comment

01 January 1971
Comments News and comment A reprieve for Foulness? By now every interested person must know that the Roskill Commission enquiry into the siting of London's third airport has recommended the choice of Cublington in Buckinghamshire. This decision was not unanimous however; one membe...
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Reviews

01 January 1971
Comments Reviews Die Schneehiihner. By E. O. Hohn. 84 pages. DM 7.50. Der Eichelhaher. By Andras Keve. 128 pages. DM 10.00. Raben- und Nebelkrahe. By Manfred Melde. n o pages. DM 8.20. Strandlaufer Eurasiens. By S. M. Uspenski. 78 pages. DM 6.40. Numbers 408, 410, 414 and...
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Notes

01 January 1971
Comments Notes Male Pheasant accompanying female and brood On 8th June 1970, on the Airthrey Estate (University of Stirling), I came upon a pair of Pheasants Phasianus colchicus with small young. As I approached, the chicks hid, while the cock ran directy towards me fro...
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Birds in Ireland during 1966-69

01 January 1971
Comments Main paper The two previous summaries of observations of Irish birds, each covering three years (Andrew 1964, Wallace 1967), outlined the purpose of the series and established both standards and methods of treatment. Broadly, the more significant records in the peri...
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