Notes

01 May 1981
Comments Notes Buzzard preying on Short-eared Owl At about 13.00 GMT on 26th October 1978,1 observed a Short-eared Owl Asio lammeus quartering the Chy-kembro Common, near Zennor, west Cornwall, at a height of l-2m. Suddenly, a Buzzard Buteo buteo flew up from...
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Bird Photograph of the Year

01 May 1981
Comments Main paper A total of 134 transparencies taken during 1980 was submitted by 52 photographers for this year's competition. The general standard was exceedingly high, with all but half-a-dozen of the entries in serious contention for the top prize. The judging pane...
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Fifty years ago

01 May 1981
Comments Other 'The bodies of three Great Crested Grebes and a Dabchick were found frozen stifTin the pack-ice . . . the birds had travelled under the ice, had been imprisoned and drowned when they strove to reach the surface . . . Five-and-twenty years ago a somewha...
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Editorial

01 May 1981
Comments Editorials On 2nd April, the EEC Directive on the conservation of wild birds came into force, two years after its adoption. It covers ten countries, including much of western Europe, stretching as far east as Greece. It improves the conservation laws in all of th...
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Recent reports

01 May 1981
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records  All dates in this report refer to February unless otherwise stated. At the beginning of the month, until 11th, milder Atlantic air from the Azores anticyclone predom...
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