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01 March 1968 Comments News and comment Maritime oil pollution.--The Field Studies Council has announced two three-year research programmes on the biology of oil pollution, including the associated use of detergents and emulsifiers. One project will be concerned with intertidal fauna; the other...

Letters

01 March 1968 Comments Letters The*wing-tip patterns of gulls Sirs,--Some years ago I saw a young Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalusflyby in Pagham Harbour, Sussex. The view was brief, but I had been watching the species in Italy not long before, and recognised the wing-pattern: t...

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01 March 1968 Comments Reviews The Natural History of Europe. By Harry Garms. Illustrated by Wilhelm Eigener. Edited by A. Melderis (plants) and Joyce Pope (animals). Paul Hamlyn, London, 1967. i x + 3 5 8 pages with 900 illustrations. 35s. This bulky book--11 by 7J inches in size, i f...

Notes

01 March 1968 Comments Notes Hobbies persistently preying on Starling roost.--During the autumns of 1964-66 we often saw Hobbies Falco subbuteo at a roost of 100-120,000 Starlings Stttrnus vulgaris in five acres of woodland in Wiltshire. In 1964 two were seen on five occasions betwee...

Recent reports

01 March 1968 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the month of January 1968, but also includes some relevant records for December 1967 and February 1968.The influx of Long-tailed Ducks Clangula byemalis...

Snowy Owls breeding in Shetland in 1967

01 March 1968 Comments Main paper The nesting of a pair of Snowy Owls Nyctea scandiaca on Fetlar, Shetland, in 1967 was the first substantiated record in the wild in the British Isles. Publicity was inevitable and so the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds organised a round-the-cloc...

Waxwings in Britain and Europe during 1965/66

01 March 1968 Comments Main paper That another eruption of Waxwings Bombjcilla garrulus from FennoScandia into western Europe was imminent was forecast during the breeding season of 1965 by Dr. Kai Curry-Lindahl. In his vast experience of northern Sweden, and especially of Swedish Lapland...

Letter

01 February 1943 Comments Letters SIRS,--As the Statement in The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. III, p. 109) that the Osprey (Pandion h. hali/ztus) last bred at Loch Arkaig in 1902 is incorrect this should be corrected. A pair nested regularly ever since I can remember up to 1908 and the...

Notes

01 February 1943 Comments Notes IN February, 1942, seventy-five nesting boxes were put up inone of the oak woods of the Forest of Dean, with the object of encouraging the breeding of insectivorous birds (tits, in particular) and thus alleviating, if possible, the recurrent outbreaks of...

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