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01 September 1972 Comments News and comment Foulness wildlife study When the Foulness area was chosen for the Third London Airport, the Government promised that funds would be available for a study of the airport's impact on the wildlife environment of the region. Long after some of us had given up...

Reviews

01 September 1972 Comments Reviews Gulls i n Britain. By Richard Vaughan. Witherby, London, 1972. 96 p a g e s ; 54 black-and-white plates. £1.75. This is a pleasant book. Gulls are highly photogenic, but few of us who walk through a gullery firing off a camera in all directions prod...

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01 September 1972 Comments Notes Bewick's Swans feeding on waste potatoes and other agricultural crops Bewick's Swans Cygnus bewickii were present on the North Slob, Wexford, from 27th October 1971 to 10th March 1972. The maximum count was 131 on n t h February and the average from 17th ...

British bird-photographers 15: William S. Paton

01 September 1972 Comments Main paper Plates ))- 60 Occasionally a bird-photographer seems to have been born overnight: quite suddenly, his pictures appear before anyone has heard of him. William S. Paton is a case in point. His photographs have now been re produced in a great variety of publ...

Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67

01 September 1972 Comments Main paper Part 8 Yellow-browed Warbler and Richard's Pipit This series now turns to two Asiatic species which are of regular occurrence in western Europe; they further have in common a recent upsurge of British and Irish records. The general introduction to these p...

The unprecedented westward migration of Curlew Sandpipers in autumn 1969

01 September 1972 Comments Main paper The Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea has long been regarded in Britain and Ireland as a passage migrant whose numbers fluctuate widely from year to year (Witherby et al. 1938-41, Nisbet and Vine 1956, Minton 1970). The passage in autumn 1969 was on a ...

Recent reports

01 September 1972 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during most of June was little better than that of the second half of May--a seemingly endless series of Atlantic depressions (nine major systems, in fact) bringing cold, cloudy co...

Requests for information

01 May 1962 Comments Editorials Wreck of Fulmars in February and March 1962.--Unusual numbers of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) were noted close inshore on various parts of the east coast during February, In some areas a high proportion were of dark or intermediate phases. During the next...

Letters

01 May 1962 Comments Letters Ringed birds in snow Sirs,--During the snowy period of early January 1962, in my garden sanctuary near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, I saw two ringed birds, a Blue Tit (Pants caerukus) and a Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus), with their rings thickly coated ...

Reviews

01 May 1962 Comments Reviews Deaths of birds and mammals from toxic chemicals, January-June 1961. T h e second report of the Joint Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on T o x i c Chemicals, i n collaboration with the Game ...

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British bird-photographers 15: William S. Paton

Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67

The unprecedented westward migration of Curlew Sandpipers in autumn 1969

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