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01 October 1972 Comments Notes Great Blue Herons coming on board ships in mid-Atlantic In late November 1968 reports appeared in the Bristol press that a heron had arrived at Avonmouth on a British merchantman, M.V. Pkardy, and had been taken to Rode Tropical Bird Gardens at Frome, Som...

Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper In October 1962, while travelling from New York to Southampton in R.M.S. Mauretania, I was fortunate to witness a fall of over 130 American landbirds of 34 species (Durand 1963). This was the highlight of five years of voyaging across the North Atlantic i...

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper ...

Editorial: Field guides and identification

01 October 1972 Comments Editorials The recent publication of The Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East, by Hermann Heinzel, Richard Fitter and John Parslow (reviewed on pages 445-448), has met with a wide range of reactions, both favourable and unfavourable. Thi...

Recent reports—July

01 October 1972 Comments Recent Reports ...

Errata in volume 64

01 December 1971 Comments Editorials This list does not include obvious typographical errors, or corrections to Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67' by Dr J. T. R. Sharrock (to be listed at the end of that series) or to the Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1970' (to...

Recent reports

01 December 1971 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The following summary deals with September 1971, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The month opened and closed with an anticyclone extending from the Azores to the Baltic and l...

Requests for information

01 December 1971 Comments Editorials ...

News and comment

01 December 1971 Comments News and comment Suggested county boundary changes Most British county boundaries were laid down during the 19th century or earlier; by people at large they have tended tc be regarded as immutable. In England, the well-established system of local bird recording has always...

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