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01 September 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was generally a cold, wet month, with an interesting period between 8th and i ith as a depression moved east across Britain bringing rain and low cloud with east and north-east winds. Many...

News and comment

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment Grants for nature conservation The Nature Conservancy Council announced on i ith August that it had just awarded 90 grants, totalling £50,000, to encourage nature conservation by voluntary bodies, local authorities and private individuals. The large...

Notes

01 November 1954 Comments Notes known that the Heron {Ardea cinerea) frequently eats eels, but there are probably few photographs in existence showing - the nestling's capacity to swallow them. The photograph reproduced on plate 65 was taken at Noorden, Holland, on May 1st, iqj4,. when ...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds. LX. Caspian Tern

01 November 1954 Comments Main paper (Plates 61-64). T H E Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) is perhaps the most impressive of all the terns on account of its large size, approaching: that of the Herring Gull (Larus argentatus), and because of its massive, shining orange-red bill, of which a...

Report on bird-ringing for 1953

01 November 1954 Comments Main paper T H I S is the seventeenth reportf issued on behalf of the Committee, continuing the earlier sequence under the title " T h e British Birds Marking S c h e m e " . It combines a report on the progress of ringing during 1953 with a selected list of recover...