Letters

01 December 1976
Comments Letters Migration in the doldrums D. I. M. Wallace expressed an atavistic 'Viewpoint' (Brit. Birds, 68: 202-203) that it was time for 'a resumption of migration studies related to conservation', and suggested setting up a working party to promote it. T...
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Notes

01 March 1968
Comments Notes Hobbies persistently preying on Starling roost.--During the autumns of 1964-66 we often saw Hobbies Falco subbuteo at a roost of 100-120,000 Starlings Stttrnus vulgaris in five acres of woodland in Wiltshire. In 1964 two were seen on five occasions betwee...
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Letters

01 February 1966
Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...
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