News and comment

01 August 1967
Comments News and comment Wildfowl counts in Northern Ireland.--One of the first tasks to be tackled by the Northern Ireland Ornithologists" Club when it was formed in October 1964 was the planning of a series of wildfowl counts in the Lough Neagh basin, along the lines of those o...
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Letters

01 August 1967
Comments Letters Red-headed Buntings in Britain and Ireland Sirs,--D. I. M. Wallace's recent review of 'Birds in Ireland during 1963-65' (Brit Birds, 60: 205-213) refers to the sixth and seventh Irish records of the Red-headed Bunting Emberi^a bruniceps in Co. Cork in Jun...
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Notes

01 August 1967
Comments Notes Hirundines taking winged insects from the surface of the sea.--With reference to another note of mine on Swallows Hirundo rustica taking winged insects from the surface of the sea off Tresco, Isles of Scilly, in September 1958 {Brit. Birds, 5 3: 200), I s...
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Review

01 August 1939
Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory. Report for 1938. As this interesting report shows, Mr, R. M. Lockley is gradually building up at Skokholm a bird observatory which is doing valuable work. A large number of people visited the island during t h e year and helped ...
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Notes

01 August 1939
Comments Notes EASILY the outstanding ornithological event in Sussex for the year 1939 was the accomplished breeding, for the first time since about 1895, of a pair of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in a sea-cliff some miles removed from the one in which, in 1938, (?) anothe...
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