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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Obituary - James Maurice Harrison, DSC, MRCS, LRCP (1892-1971)

13 March 2014 Comments Obituaries James Harrison was born in the reign of Queen Victoria in the year of Gladstone's fourth ministry. He died nearly eighty years later, having lived through a period of great scientific and industrial developments, two major world wars and extensive social ...

Recent Reports

01 June 1991 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 12th April to 9th May 1991 (February to 9th May for common migrants; first date listed is date of first report). These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black Stork Ciconia nigra Sko...

Monthly marathon

01 June 1991 Comments Other When Steve Young supplied the transparency of the wader featured as the sixth stage in this 'Marathon' (plate 7), the competition's compiler queried the photographer's identification, since the bird was 'obviously' a Little Stint Calidris minuta and no...

News and Comment

01 June 1991 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Timothy Andrews and Michael Entwistle. With great regret, we must report that news from Peru has confirmed that both birders were killed (see previous reports, Bri...

Announcements

01 June 1991 Comments Editorials Young Ornithologists of the Year. As in other recent years, entrants had to submit their field notebooks for the judges' perusal. The winners and runners-up in the 1990 competition, organised as usual by the Young Ornithologists' Club and sponsored by ...

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