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Editorial: Birds and marine pollution

01 August 1972 Comments Editorials Press reactions to the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (see also 'News and comment' on page 359) were, perhaps un>avoidably, mixed. Many laid most stress on such features as the absence of the Russian and other governments, the tons of paper...

Notes

01 August 1972 Comments Notes Little Gull dip-feeding over upland fields On 22nd January 1972, at Barley-in-Pendle, Lancashire, I was fortunate to observe a firstwinter Little Gull Larus minutus following a flock of 24 Black-headed Gulls L. ridibundus over the lower slopes of Pendle H...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1971

01 August 1972 Comments Main paper Plates III and 49-12 This is the fourteenth annual report of the Rarities Committee. As was announced in 'Changes in the editorial board' (Brit. Birds, 65: 1-3), P. A. D. Hollom has retired as chairman of the committee and we take this opportunity of expr...

Pellet-ejection by hand-reared Great Crested Grebes

01 August 1972 Comments Main paper There are few records of pellet-ejection by grebes. The habit has been observed in the Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis by the late Major Maxwell Knight (D. E. Hanson in lift.) and in the Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus and Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbu...

Recent reports

01 August 1972 Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was remarkably cold, wet and windy--altogether a month of outstandingly bad weather. A shallow depression which drifted in at the end of April brought a pleasant May Day with a light south...

News and comment

01 August 1972 Comments News and comment Environment Conference The much-vaunted United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm between 5 th and 16th June, and a great deal has already been written elsewhere about this jamboree. The conference began badly, for the U.S....

Letters

01 August 1972 Comments Letters E y e colour of immature American Marsh H a w k Following the publication of my paper on a young American Marsh Hawk Circus cyaneus hudsonius near Cley, Norfolk, in the winter of 1957/58 {Brit. Birds, 64: 537-542), R. A. Richardson wrote to point out that...

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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Editorial: Birds and marine pollution

Notes

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1971

Pellet-ejection by hand-reared Great Crested Grebes

Recent reports

News and comment

Letters

Requests for information

Letters

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