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01 September 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was generally a cold, wet month, with an interesting period between 8th and i ith as a depression moved east across Britain bringing rain and low cloud with east and north-east winds. Many...

News and comment

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment Grants for nature conservation The Nature Conservancy Council announced on i ith August that it had just awarded 90 grants, totalling £50,000, to encourage nature conservation by voluntary bodies, local authorities and private individuals. The large...

Reviews

01 March 1961 Comments Reviews Atlas of European Birds. By K. H . Voous. N e l s o n , London, i960. 284 pages; 419 maps and 355 photographs. 70s. One of the post-war developments in ornithology has been the attention given to bird distribution. There has been a growing realisation of ...

Notes

01 March 1961 Comments Notes Beetles in the plumage of birds.--On 25 th May 1959 I picked up a freshly dead Swift (Apus apus) on the sloping concrete bank of Hilfield Park Reservoir, Hertfordshire. On examining the bird I discovered a single beetle of the species Haltka ohracearighti...

A survey of moulting Shelduck on Knechtsand

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper sand-banks which lies 8.1 nautical miles from the German mainland between Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven. It extends from 8Â°i8'E to 8Â°29'i5"E and from 5 3 V ' i 8 " N to 5 3Â°46'i5"N. Robins Balje is a natural boundary on the south-west side, while the ...

Warbler fluctuations in Oak Woodland in the Severn Valley

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper T w o P R E V I O U S P A P E R S of mine in British Birds (1935, 1950) gave population statistics for the Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) and four species of warbler--Willow Warbler (Pbylloscopus trnchilus), Chiffchaff (PL collybitd), Garden Warbler ...

The contamination of birds with pollen and other substances

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper A s A RESULTof an appeal in a paper by Ash (195 9), further specimens of polleniferous contaminants, some containing other substances, were removed from the heads of migrant birds in i960. The most notable contribution was made by P.H.J, in the Camargue, ...

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