Recent reports

01 August 1981
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not autnenticated records Dates in this report refer to May unless otherwise stated. The high-pressure region in mid Atlantic, which had caused the cold northerly weather of late April, declined by 5th, and ...
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News and comment

01 August 1981
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of the editors of British Birds Aulla Conference From 30th May to 1st June, the first Italian Ornithological Conference was held in Aulla, a small town at the base of the Nort...
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Requests

01 August 1981
Comments Editorials Readers' likes and dislikes Please help us to modify BB to suit your tastes by completing the readership questionnaire on the pull-out page in the centre of this issue. Wing-tagged Grey Herons A number of nestling Grey Herons Ardea cinerea in F...
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Announcements

01 August 1981
Comments Editorials Book offers It helps BB's finances if you order these books from us: Birdwatching in the Seventies by Ian Wallace (Macmillan) £7.95 post free. A Notebook of Birds--1907-1980 by Jim Flegg (Macmillan) £6.95 post free. Fr...
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Notes

01 August 1981
Comments Notes Predation on Manx Shearwaters by grey seals On most evenings during early August 1976, large flocks of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus fed on the tide race between South Bishop Lighthouse and Ramsey Island, Dyfed. Regular gathering...
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Reviews

01 February 1981
Comments Reviews The Popular Handbook of Rarer British Birds. Second edition (revised). By P. A. D. Hollom. Witherby, London, 1980. 190 pages; one black-and-white and 55 colour plates; several line-drawings. £12.00.  The first edition (published in 1960) ...
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Recent reports

01 February 1981
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not fully authenticated records The dates in this report refer to November unless otherwise stated. The weather during the first part of the month was dominated by a high-pressure system. Until Bth, the anticyclone ...
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News and comment

01 February 1981
Comments News and comment European wildlife and natural habitats The Netherlands and Liechtenstein have become the first countries to ratify the Council of Europe's Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, which was signed in Berne ...
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Requests

01 February 1981
Comments Editorials Rare issues of 'BB' Stocks of the issues for October 1978. October 1979. November 1979 and May 1980 have run out. Anyone who has a copy which is not needed and who returns it to us will be doing BB (and potential purchasers of the complete volu...
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