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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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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...

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...

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...

The flight behaviour of Starlings at a winter roost

01 February 1976 Comments Main paper Co-ordinated flying displays by flocks of Starlings Sturnus vulgaris are often a feature at pre-roosting areas, but the most spectacular displays occur at the main roost, when very large numbers of birds fly together, prior to final roosting. On many e...

Laying dates of four species of tits in Wytham Wood, Oxfordshire

01 February 1976 Comments Main paper It has been argued by Perrins (1970) that laying a large clutch imposes a considerable extra load on the food-gathering abilities of a small bird. From this, he suggested that the date at which individual birds in a population begin laying is related t...

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01 March 1971 Comments Editorials ...

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...

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...

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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September and October report

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The flight behaviour of Starlings at a winter roost

Laying dates of four species of tits in Wytham Wood, Oxfordshire

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