Recent reports

01 August 1981
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not autnenticated records Dates in this report refer to May unless otherwise stated. The high-pressure region in mid Atlantic, which had caused the cold northerly weather of late April, declined by 5th, and ...
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News and comment

01 August 1981
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of the editors of British Birds Aulla Conference From 30th May to 1st June, the first Italian Ornithological Conference was held in Aulla, a small town at the base of the Nort...
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Requests

01 August 1981
Comments Editorials Readers' likes and dislikes Please help us to modify BB to suit your tastes by completing the readership questionnaire on the pull-out page in the centre of this issue. Wing-tagged Grey Herons A number of nestling Grey Herons Ardea cinerea in F...
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Announcements

01 August 1981
Comments Editorials Book offers It helps BB's finances if you order these books from us: Birdwatching in the Seventies by Ian Wallace (Macmillan) £7.95 post free. A Notebook of Birds--1907-1980 by Jim Flegg (Macmillan) £6.95 post free. Fr...
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Notes

01 August 1981
Comments Notes Predation on Manx Shearwaters by grey seals On most evenings during early August 1976, large flocks of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus fed on the tide race between South Bishop Lighthouse and Ramsey Island, Dyfed. Regular gathering...
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Recent reports

01 December 1964
Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary outlines the rarer passerines in the two months from 19th September to 19th November, thus overlapping slightly with the previous one {Brit. Birds, 57: 441-444); the more regula...
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News and comment

01 December 1964
Comments News and comment launches a major appeal.--The British Trust for Ornithology has launched an appeal aimed at raising £25,000. It is made in a brochure (splendidly designed by Robert Gillmor) which gives a concise history of the Trust and outlines its need for a sou...
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Review

01 December 1964
Comments Reviews The Black-tailed Godwit. By F. Haverschmidt. Brill, Leiden, 1963. v i i i + 1 2 0 pages; frontispiece, 17 black-and-white photographs, 1 drawing and 2 maps. N o price marked. The author intended this book for ordinary bird-lovers and general ornithologist...
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