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List of county and regional recorders in Britain and Ireland

01 July 1973 Comments Editorials The main aims of this list of bird recorders and editors are to ensure that observers on holiday away from their home areas send records to the right people, to encourage co-operation at the inter-county and intra-county levels, and to provide a source...

Recent reports

01 July 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary is concerned with March and April, with a separate analysis of arrivals of some commoner migrants and summer visitors. The first week of March was wet generally, but from about...

News and comment

01 July 1973 Comments News and comment A.O.U. bird name changes The Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union assumes one function that its British counterpart does not--namely, the determination of official vernacular names. In the...

Requests for information

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Reviews

01 July 1973 Comments Reviews The Naturalist in the Isle of Man. By Larch S. Garrad. David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972.234 pages; 29 photographs; 12 maps. £3.75. To one whose earlier and more leisurely days were spent dabbling in Manx natural history and folk-culture, ...

Notes

01 July 1973 Comments Notes Buzzard and Golden Eagle feeding on other avian predators On 2nd July 1972, near Appin, Argyll, we found an unusual food item at a nest of Buzzards Buteo buteo. Beside the nearly fledged young Buzzard were the fresh remains of a young Tawny Owl...

New Palearctic bird sound recordings during 1971-72

01 July 1973 Comments Main paper Through pressure of other commitments, Jeffery Boswall has regrettably had to relinquish the preparation of further additions to his well-known discography. The task of bringing this up to date is well overdue. The reference number system has proved co...

David Lambert Lack ScD, FRS (1910-1973)

01 July 1973 Comments Obituaries David Lack carne from an East Anglian family of tenant farmers, the name being a variant of Lock. The stock was of modest means, but David's father became a leading ear, nose and throat surgeon in London. His mother was the daughter of an Indian Army c...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 July 1973 Comments Main paper Of the four species we deal with in this part, three--Hobby Falco subbuteo, Red-footed Falcon F. vespertinus and Merlin F. columbarius-- are widespread and fairly common in their respective breeding areas whereas Eleonora's Falcon F. eleonorae is scarc...

Recent reports and news

01 March 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writer's judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted in case a report ...

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