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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Reviews

01 April 1986
Comments Reviews The Birds of Australia: a book of identification. By Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day. Croom Helm, London, 1985. 352 pages; 128 colour plates; many line-drawings. £25.00. Until the publication of this book, visitors to Australia had the choice of two ...
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Recent reports

01 April 1986
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to January unless otherwise stated. After two days of unsettled, mild westerlies at the beginning of the month, cold air arrived from the north, brin...
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News and Comment

01 April 1986
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' . Djibouti II. The Preliminary Report of their second expedition to Djibouti has been prepared by Geoffand Hilary Welch and makes mouthwatering reading—60,897 Ste...
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Announcements

01 April 1986
Comments Editorials EXCLUSIVE OFFER TO 'BB' SUBSCRIBERS. 'Shorebirds: an identification guide to the waders of the world' We should like to remind readers that this book can still be  ordered at the special reduced prepublication price, avail...
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