Letters

01 May 1971
Comments Letters Feather wear in Guillemots In view of R. J. Kennedy's note on feather wear in Guillemots Uria aalge (Brit. Birds, 63: 34-36) and the follow-up in this issue (pages 229-230), I should like to point out that a good many of the auks involved in the disaster ...
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Notes

01 May 1971
Comments Notes Display-flight of Sparrowhawks I was interested in the note by R. A. Hume and P. L. Garvey on the possible display-flight of four Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus on 25th January 1970 (Brit Birds, 63: 132). The unusual features were the number involved and th...
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Recent reports

01 May 1971
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The last summary (Brit, Birds, 64: 135-136) covered the rarer species and most of the unseasonal summer visitors in December 1970 and January 1971. This one deals with the remaining reports in...
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News and Comment

01 May 1971
Comments News and comment Birds of Estuaries Enquiry This joint project of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was outlined in 'News and comment' last year (Brit. Birds, 63: 183). The first report of the pilot survey, covering the p...
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Recent reports

01 April 1968
Comments News and comment Several Red-necked Grebes Podiceps ruficollis were seen inland in London, Essex, Berkshire and Huntingdon in January-February and some notable concentrations off Northumberland included peaks of 43 at Budle on 28th January and 23 at Bamburgh on 17th-! 8th...
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News and comments

01 April 1968
Comments News and comment Proposed Seychelle Islands reserve.--The recent threats to Aldabra called forth united protests from many nations, and it is pleasant now to find international co-operation over another Indian Ocean project. For the past seven years the International C...
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