Recent reports

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This deals with January 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The only really significant weather feature in a fairly mild, wet month was a short spell of freezing north-east...
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News and comment

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment Golden Jubilee The International Council for Bird Preservation was formed in 1922, mainly through the foresight of an American, T. Gilbert Pearson, then president of what is now the National Audubon Society; the inaugural meeting was held in London on 20...
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Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
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Reviews

13 March 2014
Comments Reviews African Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins, London, 1971. 320 p a g e s ; 12 black-and-white plates. £2.25. This well-produced, smallish book covers the 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls which inhabit Africa. The author is, of course, a well-known...
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Notes

13 March 2014
Comments Notes Shags laying two clutches Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis have long been considered capable of producing two broods in one breeding season, but direct evidence of this is lacking (see The Handbook, vol 4; D. A. Bannerman, 1959, The Birds of the British Is...
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Recent reports

01 June 1990
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 6th April to 10th May 1990 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides Elmley RSPB Reserve (Kent), 7th-10th May. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Near Freshwater (Isle of Wigh...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 1990
Comments Main paper Entrants obviously found this an easier problem than we had expected. We thought that many more readers would be led astray by the streaked (almost striped) lower breast/belly of this Redwing, showing the dark and strongly marked underparts of the Icel...
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News and comment

01 June 1990
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. A word from the authors. The 'News and comment' postbag contains a growing number of what amount to requests for free advertising for all manner of products. Unles...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 June 1990
Comments Other 'BIRDS AND SHELL-FIRE. I have lately been reading various articles in the papers regarding birds in the war-stricken parts of France, so I thought you might care to have a few of my personal observations on this subject . . . The House-Sparrows continu...
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