News and Comment

01 January 1976
Comments News and comment Nightingale census The British Trust for Ornithology has announced (BTO Mews no. 76) that an attempt is to be made in 1976 to make a first full census of the Nightingale. This attempt to cover the species' entire range in southern Britain will ...
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News and Comment- New author

01 January 1976
Comments News and comment This feature was started in 1963 by R. P. Cordero, who three years later was compelled by the pressure of his activities to relinquish it to J. L. F. Parslow, who, in turn, on his appointment to the Nature Conservancy, handed over to Robert Hudson in M...
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Reviews

01 January 1976
Comments Reviews Watching Birds. By James Fisher, revised edition by Jim Flegg, T. & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1974. 159 pages; 14 black-and-white photographs, line illustrations. £2.80. Many birdwatchers have been guided in their first steps in ornitholo...
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Notes

01 January 1976
Comments Notes Association between male North American Ruddy Ducks and stray ducklings On 21st May 1960, at Chew Valley Lake, Avon, I saw a female North American Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis emerge from the reeds with two ducklings less than a week old. It m...
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