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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Notes

01 May 1957
Comments Notes Vagrants at Skokholm in September 1956.--At Skokholm the period gth-i2th September 1956 was one of outstanding interest, with consid'erable variety of common migrants and four species which are major rarities in Wales. T w o juvenile Ortolan Buntings (Emb...
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Reviews

01 May 1957
Comments Reviews By a Committee of the London Natural History Society (Chairman: R. C. Homes). (Collins, London, 1957). 305 pages, 40 photographs, 5 maps. 30s. O F THE MANY and varied ways in which man has stamped his history and methods of life upon the surface of the w...
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