Notes

01 May 1965
Comments Notes Madeiran Little Shearwaters off Co. Donegal.--At 14.35 hours G M T on 22nd October 1964, from Malin Head, Co. Donegal, O.J.M. identified a Madeiran Little Shearwater Procellaria baroli baroli flying in a westerly direction. Ten minutes later it was follow...
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Shelduck broods in the Tay Estuary

01 May 1965
Comments Main paper I N T W O O F S E V E R A L earlier papers on the Shelduck Tadorna tadorna I commented briefly on the behaviour of broods and packs of young (Boase 1935, 1938). The present paper sums up in greater detail the results of continued observation at Kingoodie,...
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News and comment

01 May 1965
Comments News and comment Undiminished threat to birds of prey.--The Joint Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on Toxic Chemicals is still alarmed by the serious threat to several of Britain's birds of prey from sheep di...
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Letters

01 May 1965
Comments Letters The first nesting of Spur-winged Plovers in Greece Sirs,--In his recent article on the Spur-winged Plover Hoplopterus spinosus {Brit. Birds, 58: 47-51), I. J. Ferguson-Lees stated that the breeding of this species in Europe as a whole and in Greece in par...
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Reviews

01 May 1965
Comments Reviews Bir ds of Prey of the World. By Mary Louise Grossman and John Hamlet. Photographs by Shelly Grossman. Cassell, London, 1965. 496 pages; 70 colour and 283 monochrome photographs; numerous line drawings including 644 flight silhouettes and 422 range maps; c...
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Letters

01 June 1954
Comments Letters SIRS,--I am grateful to Mr. Ivan M. Goodbody for his comments (antea, p. 32) on my paper on the nocturnal migration of thrushes (antea, vol. xlvi, pp. 37°-374)' It is indeed possible that the coasting movement at Dun Laoghaire was unnatural. With the com...
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Reviews

01 June 1954
Comments Reviews The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland. Report for 1952. Compiled by R. A. O. Hickling and R. E. Pochin and obtainable from the former at 223, Swithland Lane, Rothley Plain, Leics. 24 pp. with map. 2s. 6d. CLASSIFIED notes, given in the Wetmore order, co...
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