Recent Reports

01 April 1978
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers January and the first part of February; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to January. The year started with a fury of gales causing havoc and extensive flood...
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News and Comment

01 April 1978
Comments News and comment SOC conference The Scottish Ornithologists' Club annual conference--always one of the year's highlights for those attending--took place during 20th-22nd January. After many years at The Hydro, Dunblane, and then a move to Stirling University, t...
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Request

01 April 1978
Comments Editorials Breeding birds of British and Irish islands Information is sought for a study aimed at identifying the major factors influencing island bird populations and species distributions. Any previously unpublished details of breeding birds (especially...
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Letters

01 April 1978
Comments Letters Golden Eagle killing red deer calf I am prompted by C. J. Northeast's note (Brit. Birds 71: 36-37) to draw attention to A. Baxter Cooper's excellent first-hand account of an immature Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos killing and attempting to lift...
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Announcement

01 April 1978
Comments Editorials 'The "British Birds" List of Birds of the Western Palearctic' All subscribers should have received their free copy of this list with either the March or this April issue of British Birds.  ...
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Reviews

01 April 1978
Comments Reviews The Miracle of Flight. By Stephen Dalton. Sampson Low, Maidenhead, 1977. 168 pages; 100 illustrations, 56 in colour, 90 diagrams. £5.95   This is a companion work to the author's earlier Borne on the Wind (1975) which dealt mainly wi...
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