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Bean Geese in the Yare Valley, Norfolk

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The only British wintering grounds for Bean Geese Anser fabalis of the western race fabalis to have been permanently occupied for many years lie in the Yare Valley, east Norfolk. The discovery of some individuals carrying coded ...

World status of the Red Kite

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper A background to the experimental reintroduction to England and Scotland In 1989, the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) started a joint experimental programme to re-establi...

Red-necked Grebe breeding in England

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena occurs widely in the Holarctic, breeding from Sweden, Finland and northern Russia, south into Denmark, Germany, the Balkans and the Ukraine, east to the Kirghiz Steppes, and then (as a much lar...

Mystery photographs

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Notes

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Letters

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Continuing dangers to Peregrines from dieldrin

01 October 1973 Comments Main paper On 3rd February 1973 an adult male Peregrine Falco peregrinus was found dazed, with, little control of equilibrium, in upper Strathendrick, Stirlingshire. The bird ate little and died the next day. About 1st April 1973 an adult female Peregrine wa...

A review of population dynamics in birds

01 October 1973 Comments Main paper This review discusses some of the latest developments in research on population dynamics. A safe way to do this is to take the usual textbook approach, which describes the most important principles so far discovered in a scientific subject and summaris...

Recent Reports

01 October 1973 Comments News and comment An unusual report for the time of year was of a Great Northern Diver Gavia immer in full summer plumage at Blackpill (Glamorgan's on 16th. Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus were numerous in the North Sea during the month, and northerly movements were ...

News & Comments

01 October 1973 Comments News and comment Nature Conservancy reorganisation It is now over a year since the idea of splitting the Nature Conservancy's research functions from its management and advisory r&les was outlined in a Government White Paper, the proposal being that the Res...

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