Recent reports

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This deals with January 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The only really significant weather feature in a fairly mild, wet month was a short spell of freezing north-east...
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News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment Golden Jubilee The International Council for Bird Preservation was formed in 1922, mainly through the foresight of an American, T. Gilbert Pearson, then president of what is now the National Audubon Society; the inaugural meeting was held in London on 20...
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Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
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Reviews

13 March 2014 Comments Reviews African Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins, London, 1971. 320 p a g e s ; 12 black-and-white plates. £2.25. This well-produced, smallish book covers the 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls which inhabit Africa. The author is, of course, a well-known...
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Notes

13 March 2014 Comments Notes Shags laying two clutches Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis have long been considered capable of producing two broods in one breeding season, but direct evidence of this is lacking (see The Handbook, vol 4; D. A. Bannerman, 1959, The Birds of the British Is...
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Corrections

01 December 1990 Comments Editorials VOLUME 82 325 EUROPEAN NEWS. American Golden Plover: line 7: 'Lisata' should read 'Lista'. 349 EUROPEAN NEWS. Nightingale: line 6: 'Store Ferder' should read 'Store Faerder'.  ...
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Recent reports

01 December 1990 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th October to 9th November 1990 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records.  Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Scilly, lst-4th November. Sociable Plover Chettusia gregaria Welney (N...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 1990 Comments Main paper In fact, plate 232 (which was taken by Brian Little) was of a rather famous bird, the Isabelline Wheatear on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, on 2nd3rd October 1988 (Brit. Birds 82: 541, plate 87; 83: 553-554, plate 301). As an aside, it rather looks as if ...
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If the caption fits

01 December 1990 Comments Editorials John H. Smart and Julian Smith have each been sent their book prizes. Just for fun, here is another 'If the caption fits .. .' competition. Readers are invited to compose an apt humorous caption to accompany this portrait of a Belted Kingfisher Ceryle ...
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