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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Letter

01 August 1933 Comments Letters SIRS,- --In his " Survey of the Rooks in the Midlands," Mr. Roebuck deals (antea, p. 23) with the change in population on breeding. But in only a few lines he tells us that, after May, either a wholesale slaughter in some rookeries or a gradual fall in nu...
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Reviews

01 August 1933 Comments Reviews LOCAL R E P O R T S , The London Naturalist, 1932. PAPERS of interest to ornithologists are :·--" The Great Crested Grebe in the London Area " by F. A. D. ilollom, with some very interesting figures regarding the numbers present on the London reservoir...
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Notes

01 August 1933 Comments Notes ELLIOTT'S record (antea, p. 46) of the nesting of Rooks in Lombardy poplars has prompted me to send the following short note. In 1930 and 1931 I made a census of the rookeries near Great Budworth, Cheshire, taking a circle with a radius of 4 ! miles. In ...
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