September and October report

01 February 1976
Comments News and comment The weather in early September was mainly anticyclonic but an airstream from the west and south-west took over, being particularly prominent from mid-month with gale force winds on several occasions. In October the picture changed, with many warm, dry ...
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News and Comment

01 February 1976
Comments News and comment Appointments to the Scientific Authority for Animals The Secretary for the Environment has appointed twelve members of the Scientific Authority for Animals to give advice on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fa...
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Reviews

01 February 1976
Comments Reviews Watching Sea Birds. By Richard Perry. Groom Helm, London, 1975. 230 pages; 16 line-drawings; 2 maps. £4.75. This is not really a new book but a reprinting of parts of two of the author's earlier books, both of which--Lundy Isle of Puffins (194...
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Notes

01 February 1976
Comments Notes Peregrine and Raven possibly contaminated by Fulmar oil With reference to R. A. Broad's paper on Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis oil contamination (Brit. Birds, 67: 297-301), the following observations of possible oiling may be of interest. On 10th J...
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Recent reports

01 October 1971
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers July 1971, and all dates refer to that month unless otherwise stated. A wreck of sprats at Teesmouth (Co. Durham/Yorkshire) in the third week attracted thousands of gulls a...
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News and Comment

01 October 1971
Comments News and comment Puffins in peril This is the title of an article by Dr J. J. M. Flegg in a recent issue (no. 46) of BTO News, published by the British Trust for Ornithology. Dr Flegg, who has been studying the Puffin colonies on St Kilda for several years, has concluded ...
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Letters

01 October 1971
Comments Letters Guillemots in Perthshire The most interesting note by E. J. Wise on the occurrence of Guillemots Uria aalge on the upper Tay inland in central Scotland in the autumns of 1969 and 1970 {Brit. Birds, 64: 77) raises a number of points. First, it is of course...
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