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 1996 Comments News and comment Compiled by Bary Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 16th April to 12th May 1996. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus Snettisham (Norfolk), 1st-12th May. Near Broad-bille...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 1996 Comments Other Plate 24 obviously showed a pratincole Glareola, but which one? Entrants decided on Oriental G. maldivarum (50%), Collared G. pratincole (27%) or Black-winged G. nordmanni (23%). The most-chosen species was the right answer. This Oriental Pratinco...
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News and comment

01 June 1996 Comments News and comment The Hellenic Ornithological Society is currently revising the Greek Important Bird Areas (IBA) list. Information from foreign birdwatchers is extremely valuable for this work and for bird conservation in general. All birdwatchers who have visited Greec...
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Diary dates

01 June 1996 Comments Editorials HISTORY. Conference on 'Species history: introductions and extinctions since the Ice Age'. SNH Conference Centre, Battleby, Perth. Details from Mrs M. Richards, University of St Andrews, Institute for Environmental History, St John's House, South Stree...
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