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 May 1984 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The dates in this report refer to February unless stated otherwise. The month began with unsettled westerly weather, and very strong westerlies on 5thand 6th. Thereafter, pressure i...
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News and comment

01 May 1984 Comments News and comment Bird Atlas for Europe. Spring 1985 will see the start of fieldwork for the European Breeding Bird Atlas, which aims to map the distribution of all of Europe's breeding birds, using a 50kmX50km grid, over as much as possible of Europe. The project is sc...
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Requests

01 May 1984 Comments Editorials All-Ireland tern survey A survey of the breeding terns Sterna in Ireland during 1984 is being organised by the RSPB and the Irish Wildbird Conservancy in conjunction with the Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland) and the Department of Fisher...
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Announcements

01 May 1984 Comments Editorials Big savings for North American subscribers. We hope that you have noted, for your own benefit, that we can now accept payment in US dollars. Please help us by drawing this to the attention of any of your birding friends whom you think might be ...
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