Suffolk Bird Report for 1963

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SUFFOLK BIRD REPORT 1963 Editor W . H.

PAYN

assisted by C. G . D.

CURTIS

and The County Records Committee H.

E.

AXELL,

G.

B.

P. H. T .

G.

BENSON,

F.

K.

COBB,

HARTLEY a n d A . E .

F.

C.

COOK,

VINE

GRATEFUL acknowledgement is made to the many observers who sent in records and to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Cambridge Bird Club, the Lowestoft Field Club and the Dingle Bird Club for allowing publication of records from their own reports. Particular acknowledgement is also made to C. G. D. Curtis for valuable help in the preparation of this report. All notes for 1964 should be sent to him at 100 Camden Road, Ipswich by the end of February next. All other correspondence in connection with the Bird Report should be sent to the Editor at Härtest Place, Bury St. Edmunds, telephone Härtest 224.

Separate copies of this report, as well as back numbers, can be obtained from the Editor, price 4/-. Survey of selected species : the same species as for 1963, viz Canada goose, magpie, collared dove, cuckoo, whinchat and lesser redpoll have again been selected for special survey in the county. Records of all species from the Stour and Waveney Valleys are particularly asked for. These areas are at present largely neglected ornithologically and it is suggested that some members might consider during the next year or two making a special study of either (or both) of these river Valleys in preference to the Suffolk coast which is at present almost " over-watched ". Attention is also drawn to two national surveys which are now being carried out. One, by the Nature Conservancy, deals with birds of prey ; the second is a B.T.O. survey of the status of the wryneck. INTRODUCTION :

A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE FAST YEAR

Preliminary comment was made in our last report on some of the more obvious results of the 1962-63 winter, one of the most severe that Britain has experienced for at least two hundred years.


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