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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Recent reports

01 December 2004 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid September to mid November 2004. Blue-winged Teal Anas discors Ythan Estuary (Northeast Scotland), 8th-9th October. Redhead Aythya americana Kenfig Pool (Glamorgan), 13th October to 10th November; Barra (Western...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 2004 Comments Other When I first saw Monthly Marathon photo number 209 in print (Brit. Birds 97: plate 265, repeated here as plate 380), I wasn't quite sure what to make of it, but as I wasn't expecting to have to write the solution, I didn't devote much thought to the probl...
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News and Comment

01 December 2004 Comments News and comment In one of the poorest wards in northeast England, the local council has voted for wildlife to drive regeneration and has awarded £450,000 to the new 400ha Saltholme reserve taking shape on the north bank of the River Tees. The total cost of this fla...
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Reviews

01 December 2004 Comments Reviews WEATHER AND BIRD BEHAVIOUR By Norman Elkins. 3rd edition. T & A D Poyser, A&C Black, London, 2004. 280 pages; colour photographs and blackand-white illustrations; maps, tables and figures. ISBN 0-7136-6825-3. Hardback, £35.00. This book, the definit...
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