Recent reports

01 October 1975
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The beginning of June was exceptional with snow and northerly gales, but a long anticyclonic spell which followed brought dry, warm conditions to most parts. A Red-throated Diver Ga...
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News and comment

01 October 1975
Comments News and comment Mammals on Islands In an article in New Scientist for 21st August, Dr W. R. P. Bourne expresses concern about damage to the vegetation of small outlying islands by introduced herbivores. He contrasts the vigorous policy of the New Zealand ...
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Notes

01 October 1975
Comments Notes Cormorants roosting on spire In the late summer and autumn of 1973 Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo regularly roosted on Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex. When this habit was first noted in mid-August only two birds were involved, but numbers gr...
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Birds in action

01 October 1975
Comments Main paper Bird photographs used to consist mainly of rather static studies at the nest. Then there developed the technique of 'wait and see' photography from hides at likely feeding and drinking places. Now more powerful lenses and more adventurous techniques ha...
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Letters

01 September 1950
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n their paper on this subject in British Birds, vol. xlii, p. 325, David and Elizabeth Lack write t h a t Dr. D. A. Bannerman in his note on Chaffinch Migration in .British Birds, vol. xxxvii, p . 177, supposed t h a t the birds he saw in N...
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Reviews

01 September 1950
Comments Reviews Report of the Natural History Section of the Wiltshire Archcsological &· Natural History Society, 1947 and 1948. Some of the interesting records in these two carefully compiled reports have already appeared in British Birds : a Roller reported (antea, v...
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Notes

01 September 1950
Comments Notes WITH regard to the swimming of small passerines (antea, vol. xl, pp. 179, vol. xlii, p. 183, vol. xliii, p. 121), the following incidents may be of interest. At the Eye Brook Reservoir, Leicestershire, a colony of Tree-Sparrows (Passer montanus) uses the...
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