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Recent reports - May

01 August 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was a month of unsettled weather, generally warm in most parts of Britain but with above average rainfall in some places. The presence during the first week of an area of high pressure ...

Notes

01 August 1973 Comments Notes Death of Great Crested Grebe in unusual circumstances On 26th June 1971, at Rostherne Mere National Nature Reserve, Cheshire, I observed a pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus in what appeared to be normal courtship display. One part...

Predation of migrant birds by gulls

01 August 1973 Comments Main paper Gulls Larus have a very diverse feeding ecology, but vertebrates form a significant part of the diet of some species (Tinbergen 1953). They are well known for their depredations on the eggs and young of colonial seabirds; they also attack and kill inju...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1972

01 August 1973 Comments Main paper This is the fifteenth annual report of the Rarities Committee. The composition of the committee is now D. I. M. Wallace (chairman), F. R. Smith (honorary secretary), D. G. Bell, A. R. M. Blake, P. E. Davis, R. H. Dennis, P.J. Grant, R.J.Johns, R. A. Ri...

Current developments in the work of the Rarities Committee

01 August 1973 Comments Main paper During 1972, and more particularly at its annual meeting in March 1973, the Rarities Committee has reviewed many points of policy and practice. Conscious of the criticism that it periodically attracts, it remains anxious to conduct its work as openly a...

Recent reports: End of August to mid November

01 December 1965 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the two and a half months from the end of August to mid-November and thus follows on after the one published in the September issue {Brit. Birds, 5 8: 3...

News and comment

01 December 1965 Comments News and comment World Wildlife Fund's report.--The World Wildlife Fund has just issued its first report, entitled The Launching of the Nest Ark (published by Collins, and obtainable at 13s. fid, post free from 2 Caxton Street, London, S.W.i, or any bookseller). Edited by...

International ornithological Congress Oxford, 24th to 30th July 1966

01 December 1965 Comments Editorials The broad details of the XIV International Ornithological Congress were announced earlier this year (Brit. Birds, 58: 156-157). Preparations for it and the preceding week's cruise round Scottish bird-islands from 16th to 22nd July are now well advanced. B...

Letters

01 December 1965 Comments Letters 'The original misidentification of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbier' Sirs,--The letter from R. H. Charlwood and D. D . Harber (Brit. Birds, 58: 225-227) contains a garbled account of what happened at Titchfield Haven, Hampshire, in connection with the identi...

Reviews

01 December 1965 Comments Reviews Enjoying Ornithology. By David Lack. Illustrated by Robert Gillmor. Methuen, London, 1965. 264 pages; 3 black-andwhite plates; many line-drawings. 30s. Discussing how the scientific repute of ornithology declined in Britain during the early part of this c...

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