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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 ...

Reviews

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 ...

Notes

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...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 November 1939 Comments Main paper Oundle (Northants), 12.1.39 [62 m. W.]. Great Ouse Estuary (Nor folk), 21.1.39 [25 m. W.]. Saltmills (Wexford), 5.2.39. Kalinin, West Russia, 15.9.38 [56Â°52'N., 36Â°E.]. Mouth of R. Welland (Lines), 24.12.38 [76 m. NW.].Saltash (Cornwall), 12.1.39 [9...

Birds seen on an autumn and a spring Atlantic Crossing

01 November 1939 Comments Main paper IN the autumn of 1938 and the spring of 1935 I made voyages across the Atlantic. The first one was in the "Europa" from Cherbourg to New York and the secondin the "Columbie" from Guadeloupe in the Leeward Isles to Plymouth. Several hours counting of birds...

Observation on Swallows and House-Martins at the Nest

01 November 1939 Comments Main paper RECENT studies of the parental care by African Hinindinidae and Swifts have suggested that, in addition to specific differences in the share taken by the sexes, certain rhythms of the behaviour may be specific, especially the favourite duration of the in...

Letter

01 November 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,--The extension of the breeding range of the Lapwing {Vanellus vanellus) to Fokstumyren referred to in my previous letter (antea, p. 118) is certainly recent. Neither H. Tho. L. Schaanning in 1917 nor H. L. Ldvenskiold in 1929 and 1930 found the bird...

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