Recent reports

01 January 1968
Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is basically concerned with the month of November, but also includes a few relevant records from early December and some belated observations relating to the July-October period...
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News and comments

01 January 1968
Comments News and comment N e w Protection of Birds Act.---The Protection of Birds Act 1967, which comes into force this month, contains a number of provisions that will affect many keen field-ornithologists and bird-photographers in England, Scotland and Wales. Any person wishing...
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Letters

01 January 1968
Comments Letters Little or White-rumped Swift ? Sirs,---The interesting article by I. J. Ferguson-Lees on Apus affinis {Brit. Birds, 60: 286-290) prompts me to raise two points. The first is the choice of the vernacular name 'White-rumped Swift' in preference to that of '...
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Notes

01 January 1968
Comments Notes Feeding relationship between mullet and Herring Gulls.--On 26th August 1967, at Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, I watched a shoal of mullet Mugil sp. swimming in ten feet of water alongside a small trawler tied up in the North Harbour. These mullet were lift...
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Diving times of grebes

01 January 1968
Comments Main paper During August to October 1966 I made regular observations on the diving of the Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podkeps which lived in a well-defined territory on the west side of Chew Valley Lake, Somerset (Ladhams, Prytherch and Simmons 1967). The results p...
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News and comment

01 January 1966
Comments News and comment Change in chairmanship of Bird Ringing Committee.---The retirement of Sir Landsborough Thomson as chairman of the Ringing and Migration Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology marks the end of an association which goes back to the very beginning of...
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Letters

01 January 1966
Comments Letters Birds trapped by sludge or m u d Sirs,--I was most interested to read the note by G. L. Webber {Brit. Birds, 5 8: 296-297) on 'Birds trapped by sludge on a sewage farm'. I have found at Freckleton sewage farm and various other sites in Lancashire, includi...
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Reviews

01 January 1966
Comments Reviews The Life of the Robin. By David Lack. Drawings by Robert Gillmor. Witherby, London, 1965 (revised edition). 240 pages; numerous line drawings. 30s. Of the scientific bird books published in the last 2 5 years, The Life of the Robin is surely the most read...
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