Birds in Ireland during 1960-62

01 January 1964
Comments Main paper annual reports of the Rarities Committee (see Brit. Birds, 54: 174). The advantages of having all records of rarities within these islands considered by one body and collected together into one report are obvious, and it is very much to be hoped that a ha...
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Notes

01 January 1964
Comments Notes Fulmar incubating eggs of Herring Gull with its own.--On 27th May 1963 I was walking along a cliff top four miles south of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, when I surprised a Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis off its nest. As it flew, a brown egg rolled out and smashed on t...
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Winter Visitors

01 January 1964
Comments Editorials In many areas it was a poor autumn for visible migration of thrushes because conditions were seldom right to bring the birds low enough. However, big movements of Redwings Turdus iliacus were widely commented on 14th, I9th-20th, 22nd-23td and especially 2...
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Recent reports

01 January 1964
Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary covers the five weeks from n t h October to 15th November, with the addition of a few earlier observations. It thus follows the one in the November issue {Brit. Birds, 5 6: 427-...
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News and Comment

01 January 1964
Comments News and comment A unique conference on the countryside.--The growing pressure of population in Britain is frightening to all who wish to see the countryside saved from spoliation, but at least as this pressure grows so does a determination to do something positive about ...
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Letters

01 January 1964
Comments Letters Disturbance of breeding and resting birds by bird-watchers Sirs,--Changes in land use involving reclamation for agriculture and forestry, together with other factors consequent upon an expanding economy, have, within the last two or three decades, conside...
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Reviews

01 February 1961
Comments Reviews Vara Faglar i Norden (Our Birds in the North). Second edition edited by Kai Curry-LindaM (Swedish text). Bokforlaget Natur och Cultur, Stockholm, 1959 and i960. Volumes I and II, 1022 pages; coloured and black-and-white plates, and maps, (Four volumes: Sw...
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