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List of country and area recorders in Britain and Ireland

01 March 1967 Comments Editorials SEVERAL READERS have suggested that we publish a list of the names and addresses of the county bird recorders and editors. Those who are collating records for special analyses often need such a list and sometimes they approach the wrong persons or else fo... Read More

Requests for information

01 March 1967 Comments Editorials Autumn and winter influx of Rough-legged Buzzards.---Since October 1966 unusual numbers of Rough-legged Buzzards Buteo lagopus have been widely scattered in eastern and south-eastern counties with some also well inland and others as far west as Cornwall a... Read More

Food of Long-eared Owls in north-east Ireland

01 March 1967 Comments Main paper Long-eared Owl Asio otus is the most common owl in Ireland, detailed knowledge of the nature of its food is limited to a single analysis of pellets (L. E. Adams, in Standen 1897). Adams collected these, so far as is known, from the Ballycastle area, Co. A... Read More

Studies of some species rarely photographed. LIII. Tawny Pipit

01 December 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 68-71) T H E Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris) is usually looked upon in Britain with greater interest than are the other rarer pipits. Possibly this is because it bred in Sussex on one or two occasions at the beginning of the present century or per... Read More