News and Comment

01 March 1971
Comments News and comment Action on environmental pollution ? Naturalists had been waiting with interest for the report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, published on 23rd February. They were not disappointed. The report was forthright in declaring that British t...
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Letters

01 March 1971
Comments Letters Future 'British and Irish Lists' At a national conference of regional and local bird report editors in September 1967, arranged by the Report Editors' Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, a resolution was passed deploring the multiplicity of li...
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Reviews

01 March 1971
Comments Reviews Wild Wings to the Northlands. By S. Bayliss Smith. Witherby, London, 1970. 208 pages; 24 black-and-white photographs. £1.50. Anyone might be forgiven for thinking, on brief acquaintance, that this is just another birdwatcher's travelogue full of sen...
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Notes

01 March 1971
Comments Notes Fulmars brooding substitute objects While visiting the Monach Islands off North Uist in the Outer Hebrides between 6th and 28th July 1970, I made a count of nesting Fulmars Fulmarus glacialis. I found 86 nests with eggs or young on the islands of Ceann Ea...
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Recent reports

01 March 1971
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records Only a proportion of December reports reached us before the flow was completely stopped by the Post Office strike, and it has therefore been impossible to compile a comprehensive picture for t...
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