ICBP news

01 November 1991
Comments Editorials In response to a request from the International Council for Bird Preservation, we shall be publishing a regular short feature on international bird conservation topics, in addition to those which we have always included in 'News and comment'. EDS. ...
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Fieldwork action

01 November 1991
Comments Editorials Regional Development Officers. During 1992-93, the BTO will be setting up a new regional network. This will consist of BTO members keen to promote the BTO at the local level in a systematic way. The new volunteers will be called Regional Development Of...
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Letter

01 November 1991
Comments Letters Identification of Meadow and Red-throated Pipits. In a 'Mystery photographs' text {Brit. Birds 79: 34-40), the late P.J. Grant discussed the identification of Meadow Anthus pratensis and Red-throated Pipits A. cervinus, prompted by a series of photogra...
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Notes

01 November 1991
Comments Notes Herons alighting on sea. On 31st August 1985, from the Zuluf offshore oilfield in the Persian Gulf, N. J. S. Drummond and I observed a migrating flight of seven Purple Herons Ardea purpurea flying very low over the sea. One of them suddenly a...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1991
Comments Other ' Mr W. J. E. Dawson states that he discovered a pair of Lanius collurio near Athlone about the end of April, 1916. Mr Dawson has kindly sent us further details of the birds he saw and we feel sure from what he says that he was mistaken in his identifi...
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Letters

01 January 1951
Comments Letters SIRS,--An annual report for the County of Suffolk is to be published, beginning with 1950, and I would be grateful if any of your readers who may have records of observations made in Suffolk in this or subsequent years would be good enough to send them to...
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Books Received

01 January 1951
Comments Editorials Flamingo City. By G. K. Yeates. (Country Life, 25/-). Birds and Men. By E M. Nicholson. (Collins, 21/-). The Sarawak Museum Journal (Vol. V, No. 2, September, 1950). ment Printing Office, Kuching, Sarawak ; $6.00 Straits). (Govern-...
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Reviews

01 January 1951
Comments Reviews Fifteenth Annual Report (1948) and Sixteenth Annual Report (1949) of the British Trust for Ornithology. Price 1/6. Obtainable from B.T.O., 91, Banbury Road, Oxford. These two reports give evidence of much useful work carried on under the auspices of the B...
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Notes

01 January 1951
Comments Notes ON March 23rd, 1947, I observed a presumed male Rook (Corvus fmgilegus) attempting coition on the ground with a presumed female of the same species. The rookery was about 50 yards away.ON,April 4th, 1949, at Little Plumstead, Norfolk, two Rooks were pres...
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