News and comment

01 September 1973
Comments News and comment Pickled birds on the menu A recent press statement by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds draws attention to a distasteful matter not yet covered by legislation: the importing of pickled birds from Cyprus. It is thought that five to s...
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Letters

01 September 1973
Comments Letters Scope of 'British Birds' I have been receiving British Birds for a few years now, and it appears to me that the present trend is to include more and more foreign material. For example, the March 1973 issue contained papers on the iden...
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Notes

01 September 1973
Comments Notes Unusual hunting behaviour of Sparrowhawks During February 1972, at Benacre, Suffolk, I spent several hours observing a pair of Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus hunting over a particular field which had been left to seed. This field was the feeding ...
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Recent reports

01 September 1973
Comments News and comment An adult Purple Heron Ardea purpurea stayed at Minsmere (Suffolk) from 1st to 18th and an immature remained there from 9th to 24th, while at Sandown (Isle of Wight) one arrived on 17th. In Lincolnshire single Little Egrets Egretta garzetta occurred at ...
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Reviews

01 April 1956
Comments Reviews with field assistance by GEORGE EDWARDS. (Faber and Faber, London, 1955). 128 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 18s. Birds Fighting is one of the first bird books to be illustrated mainly with electronic flash photographs. A number of them have already appeared in t...
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Notes

01 April 1956
Comments Notes Purple Heron in Surrey.--On 18th September 1955 I disturbed a juvenile Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) in a patch of rather close-growing reeds at the south end of Frensham Little Pond, six miles N . W . of Haslemere, Surrey. First seen indistinctly in the ...
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Special Review

01 April 1956
Comments Reviews and 1955). 162 pages and 24 p l a t e s ; 235 pages and 24 plates. Each 10s. T H E activities of the W r ildfowl Trust have expanded enormously since its inception in 1946. T h e contents of the First Annual Report, reviewed in this journal in 1948, consi...
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