Recent Reports

01 May 1984
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The dates in this report refer to February unless stated otherwise. The month began with unsettled westerly weather, and very strong westerlies on 5thand 6th. Thereafter, pressure i...
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News and comment

01 May 1984
Comments News and comment Bird Atlas for Europe. Spring 1985 will see the start of fieldwork for the European Breeding Bird Atlas, which aims to map the distribution of all of Europe's breeding birds, using a 50kmX50km grid, over as much as possible of Europe. The project is sc...
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Requests

01 May 1984
Comments Editorials All-Ireland tern survey A survey of the breeding terns Sterna in Ireland during 1984 is being organised by the RSPB and the Irish Wildbird Conservancy in conjunction with the Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland) and the Department of Fisher...
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Announcements

01 May 1984
Comments Editorials Big savings for North American subscribers. We hope that you have noted, for your own benefit, that we can now accept payment in US dollars. Please help us by drawing this to the attention of any of your birding friends whom you think might be ...
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Letters

01 May 1984
Comments Letters Recording and use of observations made abroad. With interest and participation in foreign tours, informal overseas birdwatching trips and the like growing year by year, I wonder if I might make a plea for more informed note-taking by those visiting orn...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 May 1984
Comments Other 'THE BIRDS OF FAIR ISLE. In the last issue of 'The Annals of Scottish Natural History' (1909, pp. 69-75) Mr. W. Eagle Clarke gives a report on the observations made on this now well-known island during 1908. The results are even more extraordinary...
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Notes

01 May 1984
Comments Notes Great Crested Grebe apparently transferring young to another water. In the spring of 1979, three pairs of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus nested at Bough Beech Reservoir, Kent. Two pairs in the main reservoir of 278 acres (113ha) of wat...
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