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May report

01 September 1976 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during May was generally warm with several hot spells, particularly in the second week, and was dominated by winds from a southerly quarter, which encouraged the overshooting of so...

News and Comment

01 September 1976 Comments News and comment Endangered species The expected failure of the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Bill to become law in this Parliamentary session (Brit. Birds, 69: 156157) will allow conservationists and Government alike time to consider the reasoning behind passing...

Exhibition by contemporary bird painters

01 November 1960 Comments Editorials A T T H E S U G G E S T I O N of the Reading Ornithological Club, the Reading Art Gallery has made its rooms available for an exhibition of contemporary bird paintings. This Exhibition was opened by Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, K.G., G.C.B., O.M., o...

Recent Reports and News

01 November 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Letters

01 November 1960 Comments Letters "Kestrel pellets at a winter roost" Sirs,--I read with interest the paper by T. A. W. Davis on his examination of pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) at winter roosts in Pembrokeshire {Brit. Birds, 53: 281-284). May I, however, make one small correcti...

Reviews

01 November 1960 Comments Reviews St. Kilda Summer. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Hutchinson, London, 1960. 224 p a g e s ; with photographs, drawings and maps. 25 s. For 27 years after its inhabitants had been evacuated at their own request, St. Kilda was visited only infrequ...

Studies of less familiar birds 108. Little Crake

01 November 1960 Comments Main paper ornithologists turned their attention to live birds. In fact there is possibly no other group, at least in Europe, whose numbers and distribution are shrouded in such uncertainty. Therefore, when the editors obtained some photographs of the Little Crake (...

Northern Waterthrush in the Isles of Scilly: a bird new to Great Britain and Ireland

01 November 1960 Comments Open Access St. Agnes Bird Observatory (Plate 5 9) O N T H E M O R N I N G of 30th September 1958, G.J.H. and R.E.S. discovered at Govean, on the eastern side of St. Agnes, Isles of Stilly, a small ground-feeding bird which they identified as a Northern Waterthrus...

Some breeding habits of the Sparrowhawk

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John Alexander Harvie-Brown