Announcements

01 September 1991 Comments Editorials Rare Breeding Birds Panel. The work of the Panel has been supported since its inception in 1973 by British Birds, the BTO, the NCC and the RSPB. In April 1991, however, the NCC ceased to exist, its functions being taken over by three separate bodies: E...
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Fieldwork action

01 September 1991 Comments Editorials Are Nightjar numbers still on the way down? The first sign of a decline in numbers of Nightjars Caprimulgus europaeus was in 1952, and, since the BTO Nightjar Survey of 1957-58, the trend has been one of a continuing decrease, especially in the North a...
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The new counties and regions

01 January 1975 Comments Editorials The new counties and regions On 1st April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the counties, county boroughs, boroughs and urban and rural districts of England and Wales were superseded, for administrative purposes, by a new network of co...
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