Recent reports

01 October 1971
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers July 1971, and all dates refer to that month unless otherwise stated. A wreck of sprats at Teesmouth (Co. Durham/Yorkshire) in the third week attracted thousands of gulls a...
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News and Comment

01 October 1971
Comments News and comment Puffins in peril This is the title of an article by Dr J. J. M. Flegg in a recent issue (no. 46) of BTO News, published by the British Trust for Ornithology. Dr Flegg, who has been studying the Puffin colonies on St Kilda for several years, has concluded ...
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Letters

01 October 1971
Comments Letters Guillemots in Perthshire The most interesting note by E. J. Wise on the occurrence of Guillemots Uria aalge on the upper Tay inland in central Scotland in the autumns of 1969 and 1970 {Brit. Birds, 64: 77) raises a number of points. First, it is of course...
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Reviews

01 October 1971
Comments Reviews Birds of Prey in the Field. By Roger Harkness and Colin Murdoch. Witherby, London, 1971. 208 p a g e s ; 61 black-and-white photographs; 44 pages of drawings. £2.25. Birds of prey present difficult problems in field identification and many birdwatch...
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Notes

01 October 1971
Comments Notes Moorhen killing Jackdaw In view of A. Blackett's note (Brit. Birds, 63: 384), the following incident may be of interest. On 28th June 1964, at Corsham Lake, Wiltshire, I was watching a pair of Moorhens Gailitmla chbropus with five small chicks feeding by ...
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Recent reports

01 October 1971
Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the rarer species in August and the first three weeks of September, but also includes a few July reports received too late for the August issue (Brit. B...
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