Recent reports

01 January 1969
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary is concerned mainly with January 1969 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. It was a rather more eventful period than January 1968: as well as the usual cro...
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News and comment

01 January 1969
Comments News and comment Zoos and endangered species Zoological gardens are popular with the general public, and we live in an era when small privately-owned zoos are proliferating, both in this country and abroad. There has to be justification for the resulting traffic in largel...
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Recent reports

01 January 1969
Comments News and comment Among the most interesting records of the winter were several Little Bustards Otis tetrax. Unlike the Great Bustard 0. tarda, this south Eurasian and north African species has never been known to breed in Britain and the grand total of records in these is...
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News and comment

01 January 1969
Comments News and comment The vectors of foot-and-mouth disease Foot-and-mouth is not indigenous to our islands, yet it appears here all too often. The means by which the disease spreads have been the subject of much controversy, and farmers in particular have been only too ready ...
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Recent reports

01 January 1969
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary is confined to November 1968 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. Although there were a few belated records of vagrants from America and Asia as well as fr...
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News and comment

01 January 1969
Comments News and comment Annual Conference The British Trust for Ornithology's Annual ·Conference was held at Swanwick in Derbyshire from 29th November to 1st December, with a capacity attendance and (as some were heard to say) a capacity programme. Probably the most important ...
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