Recent reports

01 September 1970
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The following analysis deals with August 1970, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The weather was fairly settled until about 15 th and again from 25 th. During i6th-24th a serie...
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News and Comment

01 September 1970
Comments News and comment N e w Department of the Environment The Prime Minister revealed in October the government's new administrative set-up for environmental matters. Under this reorganisation of government departments, the Right Honourable Peter Walker becomes Secretary of St...
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Reviews

01 September 1970
Comments Reviews Where to Watch Birds in Britain and Europe. By John Gooders. Andre Deutsch, London, 1970. 299 pages; 25 black-and-white photographs; 27 sketch maps. 45s. In this successor to Where to Watch Birds (1967), whose scope was conrlned to Britain and Ireland, Jo...
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Letters

01 September 1970
Comments Letters Melanistic White-fronted Geese Further to my note on melanistic European White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons albifrons (Brit. Birds, 63: 131), Eckhart Kuyken has drawn my attention to his recent paper on melanism, albinism and other plumage variants in wi...
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Notes

01 September 1970
Comments Notes Common Scoters inland I was interested in the recent notes by Spencer (1969) and White (1970) on overland movements of Common Scoters Melanitta nigra, as not only The Handbook, but also Baxter and Rintoul (1953), Kennedy et al. (1955), Bannerman (1958), A...
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The Index of Heron Population, 1944

01 May 1945
Comments Main paper The number of reports on sites occupied by Herons in 1944, which were received at the Edward Grey Institute, was i n . Of these 77 were in England, 6 in Wales, 8 in Scotland and 20 in Ireland. We are indebted to 55 informants, of whom a considerable numbe...
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Notes from Fair Isle, 1939-45

01 May 1945
Comments Main paper IN the spring of 1944, George T. Arthur (G.T.A.), and the writer (G.W.), visited Fair Isle, Shetland, between March 28th and April 17th. In autumn, the island was again visited by the writer between August 14th and 21st. Eighty-seven different species and...
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