News and Comment

01 January 2006
Comments News and comment As 2005 drew to a close, the virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza was reported in poultry in the Crimea peninsula of Ukraine. This was the fourth country in Europe to report bird flu, following outbreaks in October in Romania (dead Mute Swans Cygnus...
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Letters

01 January 2006
Comments Letters I refer to Steve Percival's article on this subject (Percival 2005). By the end of 2004, 16,534 wind turbines were installed in Germany, which provides enormous scope for research on the potential impacts to bird populations. Most of this research has ...
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Recent reports

01 November 1971
Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This covers August 1971, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. Dull, changeable, showery weather during the first week led into an unusually wet and windy period from 9th to 14th w...
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News and comment

01 November 1971
Comments News and comment N e w R.S.P.B. reserve in Orkney The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has recently acquired its first reserve in Orkney: the Dale of Cottascarth on the main island. The Dale is already scheduled by the Nature Conservancy as a Site of Special Scie...
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Letters

01 November 1971
Comments Letters The late James Fisher's papers Several naturalists have asked me what has been the fate of the working notes and other papers used by my father, the late James Fisher. I hope that the following summary may be useful to naturalists who may wish to have acc...
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