Recent reports

01 August 1981
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not autnenticated records Dates in this report refer to May unless otherwise stated. The high-pressure region in mid Atlantic, which had caused the cold northerly weather of late April, declined by 5th, and ...
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News and comment

01 August 1981
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of the editors of British Birds Aulla Conference From 30th May to 1st June, the first Italian Ornithological Conference was held in Aulla, a small town at the base of the Nort...
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Requests

01 August 1981
Comments Editorials Readers' likes and dislikes Please help us to modify BB to suit your tastes by completing the readership questionnaire on the pull-out page in the centre of this issue. Wing-tagged Grey Herons A number of nestling Grey Herons Ardea cinerea in F...
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Announcements

01 August 1981
Comments Editorials Book offers It helps BB's finances if you order these books from us: Birdwatching in the Seventies by Ian Wallace (Macmillan) £7.95 post free. A Notebook of Birds--1907-1980 by Jim Flegg (Macmillan) £6.95 post free. Fr...
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Notes

01 August 1981
Comments Notes Predation on Manx Shearwaters by grey seals On most evenings during early August 1976, large flocks of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus fed on the tide race between South Bishop Lighthouse and Ramsey Island, Dyfed. Regular gathering...
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August reports

01 November 1974
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records August was dominated by weather from the Atlantic, a series of depressions crossing Britain and producing generally cool and unsettled conditions with temperatures below average and rainfal...
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News and comment

01 November 1974
Comments News and comment Rookery census The last national survey of the British Rook population was undertaken by the British Trust for Ornithology in 1945; much data was gathered (and is still on file), though rather little was published. Various local surveys carried...
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Letters

01 November 1974
Comments Letters Oiled seabirds successfully cleaning their plumage I was interested to read the note by T. R. Birkhead, Clare Lloyd and P. Corkhill concerning the successful cleaning of oiled plumage by seabirds (Brit. Birds, 66: 535-537). Instances of this be...
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Reviews

01 November 1974
Comments Reviews The Cairngorms. Their Natural History and Scenery. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson and Adam Watson. Collins, London, 1974. 286 pages; 7 colour and 36 black-and-white photographs; 17 maps and text-figures. £3.50.  Everything about the Cairn...
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