Recent reports

01 July 1985
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records.   The dates in this report refer to April unless otherwise stated. The month began with unsettled weather and southwesterly winds until 8th, when a high formed to the ...
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News and comment

01 July 1985
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds,  Hayle inquiry. The Department of the Environment has now called for a Public Inquiry in early July to review planning permissions on the Hayle Estuary, Cornwa...
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Requests

01 July 1985
Comments Editorials Sightings of White-tailed Eagles. The number of White-tailed Eagles Haliaeetus albicilla released from the Isle of Rhum in the Inner Hebrides has now reached 72, with a final ten to be freed in 1985. Each bird is individually marked with a BTO ring and...
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Announcements

01 July 1985
Comments Editorials Payments to 'BB' by GIRO. We should like to remind all subscribers that payments can be made to British Birds Ltd by means of GIRO. Our UK Post Office GIRO account number is 37 588 6303. This method of payment may be particular...
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Letters

01 July 1985
Comments Letters Origin of British Glaucous Gulls. I read with interest A. R. Dean's comments on the possible origins of Glaucous Gulls Larus hyperboreus in Britain and related incidences of occurrences of hybrid Glaucous X Herring Gulls L. argentatus {Brit. Birds 77: ...
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Notes

01 July 1985
Comments Notes Petrels eating contraceptives, polythene and plastic beads. As part of a more detailed study on the food and feeding ecology of the Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis, regurgitations from adults and chicks from colonies on the Firths of Forth and Clyd...
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