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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Notes

01 December 1933 Comments Notes I T is with the greatest regret t h a t we have to announce the death at Berlin, on the 10th of November, after an illness of only three days, of Dr. Ernst Hartert. Dr. Hartert was renowned as an ornithologist all over the world, but in no country was he...
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Territory Reviewed

01 December 1933 Comments Main paper I T is now some twenty-five years since the theory of " territory " in bird life was enunciated b y Eliot Howard (1907-14, 1920, 1929) as the result of his intensive study of the behaviour of some of the Warblers and Buntings. The attractive nature of the...
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Vipers Preying on Young Birds

01 December 1933 Comments Main paper (Plate 7). ON the moors of North Wales the common viper (Vipera berus) habitually preys on chicks of Red Grouse (Lagopus s. scoticus) and young Meadow-Pipits (Anthus pratensis) and Ring-Ouzels (Turdus t. torquatus). One hot day in early June, 1932, I was ...
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