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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Corrections and additions

01 December 1980
Comments Editorials Volume 72 Pages 446-449 'County, regional and bird observatory recorders in Britain and Ireland'. There are the following changes or corrections to the list: Essex Delete '& J. Thorogood, 3 Sceptre Close, Tollesbury, Essex CM9 8NB.' Lancash...
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Reviews

01 December 1980
Comments Reviews Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Birds of the Western Palearctic. Volume II. Hawks to Bustards. Edited by Stanley Cramp (chief editor) and K. E. L. Simmons, Robert Gillmor, P. A. D. Hollom, Robert Hudson, E. M. Nic...
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Short reviews

01 December 1980
Comments Reviews Devil Birds: the life of the Swift. By Derek Bromhall. (Hutchinson, London, 1980. 96 pages; 33 colour plates; many black-and-white plates. Hardback, £8.95; paperback, £5.95.) Readable account of the natural history of the Swift by someone who...
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Recent reports

01 December 1980
Comments News and comment These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records Unless stated otherwise, all dates refer to September. The first half of the month was dominated by westerly winds, often very strong in the west, especially on 12th and 13th. From 18th, an anticyc...
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