Letters

01 May 1976 Comments Letters The continuing slaughter of birds of prey in Britain Your recent editorial (Brit. Birds, 68: 481-483) on the World Conference on Birds of Prey, organised by the International Council for Bird Preservation in Vienna in October 1975, stimulates t...
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Reviews

01 May 1976 Comments Reviews Flamingos. Edited by Janet Kear and Nicole Duplaix-Hall. T, & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1975. 246 pages; seven colour plates; 48 black-and-white plates; numerous drawings, maps and diagrams, £8.00. In July 1973 an international gathering ...
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Notes

01 May 1976 Comments Notes Reactions of Goldeneyes to boating Until 1966 Chasewater (Cannock Reservoir), Staffordshire, held fewer than ten wintering Goldeneyes Bucephala clangula. In subsequent winters higher numbers have been recorded. Although the reasons for this inc...
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View: A price for conservation?

01 May 1976 Comments Main paper Colin Tubbs is an Assistant Regional Officer for the Nature Conservancy Council and author of 'The New Forest--an ecological history' {ig6g) and 'The Buzzard' (1974)- His research interests include interpretation of the structure of woodland and other ...
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Recent reports

01 April 1968 Comments News and comment Several Red-necked Grebes Podiceps ruficollis were seen inland in London, Essex, Berkshire and Huntingdon in January-February and some notable concentrations off Northumberland included peaks of 43 at Budle on 28th January and 23 at Bamburgh on 17th-! 8th...
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News and comments

01 April 1968 Comments News and comment Proposed Seychelle Islands reserve.--The recent threats to Aldabra called forth united protests from many nations, and it is pleasant now to find international co-operation over another Indian Ocean project. For the past seven years the International C...
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Letters

01 April 1968 Comments Letters Taxonomic responsibility Sirs,--In his review (Brit. Birds, 59:312-315) of the revised and enlarged edition of A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (1966), E. M. Nicholson remarked on the arbitrary alteration of the classification, sequence an...
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Reviews

01 April 1968 Comments Reviews The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Birds. By J. Hanzak, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1967. 582 pages; 1,220 photographs (45 in colour) and 7 drawings. 30s. This Anglo-Czech production, refreshingly inexpensive as such, is edited by Bruce Campbell, whose foreword de...
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