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01 May 1967 Comments News and comment "Torrey Canyon* and after.--Sooner or later the wrecking of a jumbo-tanker had to happen; now it has. Understandably, the first concern of government, press and public alike when the Torrey Canyon went aground on the Seven Stones reef was for the holiday ...

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01 May 1967 Comments Reviews The Bird Faunas of Africa and its Islands. By R. E. Moreau. Academic Press, London, 1966. 424 pages; 65 figures (including many maps and a number of habitat photographs). 100s. Reg Moreau--as he is known even to those who have not the pleasure of knowing ...

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01 May 1967 Comments Notes Winter breeding of Shags.--On 19th February 1966, on an islet off Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey, I found eight nests occupied by Shags Pbalacrocorax aristotelis and could see eggs in two of the lower ones. By 27th February heavy seas had washed away all exce...

Birds in Ireland during 1963-65

01 May 1967 Comments Main paper years 1960-62 were reviewed in January 1964 by D . G. Andrew (Brit. Birds, 57: 1-10). The information that he summarised came mainly from the Irish Bird Reports which have continued to appear promptly under the expert hand of Major R. F. Ruttledge. T h e ...

More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

01 May 1967 Comments Main paper annual selection of the best contemporarywork by British bird-photographers. The final choice was particularly difficult this year because it had to be made from a preliminary selection of no less than 67 prints of a comparably high standard. It is sad th...

Changes in status among breeding birds in Britain and Ireland

01 May 1967 Comments Main paper Arctic Skua Stercararius parasiticus. Somewhat decreased 19th century, due to human disturbance; somewhat increased in 20th century where protected (A & L). Increasing Orkney and Fair Isle; little information from elsewhere. Not scarce; restricted to Scot...

Reviews

01 February 1964 Comments Reviews A Study of Bird Song. By Edward A. Armstrong. Oxford University Press, London, 1963. x i v + 3 3 5 pages; 17 plates; 43 figures and 14 tables. 45 s. Far more work has been done on the vocal behaviour of birds than of all other animals combined. Much of it...

Notes

01 February 1964 Comments Notes Unusual numbers of sea-birds at Teesmouth in August 1962.--In August 1962 huge concentrations of Sprats Clupea sprattus appeared in the bay and estuary of the River Tees, on the border of Co. Durham and Yorkshire. Many of the fish entering the mouth of th...

Measurements and Weights Of Great Black-Backed Gulls

01 February 1964 Comments Main paper marine gulls and this short paper is intended t o give some idea of the size range and sex differences within a single population of Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinus. T h e individuals concerned were collected during a gull control programme on Skok...

Oystercatchers and Mussels

01 February 1964 Comments Main paper I N T H E S U M M E R O F 1961, on the Drigg Peninsula near Ravenglass, Cumberland, a pair of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostrakgus made their nest on a relatively bare sandy area about eight yards square and surrounded by a dense growth of nettles Urtica s...

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Birds in Ireland during 1963-65

More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

Changes in status among breeding birds in Britain and Ireland

Reviews

Notes

Measurements and Weights Of Great Black-Backed Gulls

Oystercatchers and Mussels

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