Puffins on St Kilda

01 February 1977
Comments Main paper The time when the Puffins on St Kilda could be compared to swarms of locusts has passed—some census work in the 1960s suggested a great decline. What is the situation now?  St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, probably once had one of the world's l...
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Letters

01 February 1977
Comments Letters Photographic quality and usefulness While browsing through a dozen recent volumes of the Swedish journal Vår Fågelvårld, I was impressed by the high proportion of photographs depicting birds in flight, even though not all of them were of very good q...
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Recent Reports

01 February 1977
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers November and, except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. Winter thrushes During most Novembers, the east coast is alive with Field...
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Request

01 February 1977
Comments Editorials Corpses of Nuthatches and Treecreepers As part of a short-term study of Nuthatches Sitta europaea and Treecreepers Certhia familiaris, recently dead specimens are needed for gut content analysis. Any found dead should be sent, with details of d...
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Announcements

01 February 1977
Comments Editorials Overseas subscriptions to 'British Birds' Please note that, although our overseas subscription price is quoted in US dollars ($17.50), payment (in advance) can be made in any currency at the exchange rate prevailing between that currency and th...
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Reviews

01 February 1958
Comments Reviews p a g e s ; coloured frontispiece by Roland Green; 12 photographic plates. (Witherby, London, 1957). 21s. INTENDED to provide detailed practical information for keepers, and would-be keepers, of waterfowl, this small book fulfils its aims admirably. A wor...
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