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Seabird Breeding Distribution Survey Author(s): Raymond J. O'Connor Source: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 15, No. 11 (Jul., 1967), p. 328 Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25537130 . Accessed: 14/06/2014 15:23 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Irish Naturalists' Journal. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 185.44.77.38 on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 15:23:47 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Seabird Breeding Distribution SurveyAuthor(s): Raymond J. O'ConnorSource: The Irish Naturalists' Journal, Vol. 15, No. 11 (Jul., 1967), p. 328Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25537130 .

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Following the Conservation Committee's success (in December 1965) in persuading Down County Council to limit the use of herbicides on road verges, contact was made in April, 1966, with the Deputy Surveyor of County Antrim, to whom representations were made similar to those made to Down. The

Deputy Surveyor, on his own initiative, studied all the correspondence with Down, and has formulated a statement of aims in the management of road

verges in which wild life conservation is very prominent. The B.N.F.C. Conser

vation Committee would like to make detailed recommendations to interested County Councils about verge management, iand will probably be able to do so in time. We are in touch with the Nature Conservancy research establishment

and will see that appropriate new information from it reaches Northern Ireland councils without delay.

The moth-trapping programme started at Hillsborough Forest in 1965 was continued through part of 1966, and results are now being analysed so that a report can be made to the Forestry Division of the Ministry of Agriculture. In general, they show that by far the majority of moth species in the forest are feeders on native species of trees, and on native shrubs and herbs, but that some species feeding on exotic conifers are present. It is obviously important to

maintain at least a sprinkling of native trees in a State plantation if it is to have a rich and diverse motih population.

During 1966, the Nature Reserves Committee envisaged under the Amenity Lands Act was set up. Dr Heal attends meetings as an observer and adviser on the protection of rare species of plants and invertebrates. Two

reports ,on 4this subject, with fairly detailed recommendations, have been submitted to the Nature Reserves Committee. It is still not quite clear what the future role of this Government Committee will be, and how its work will interact with that of voluntary bodies such as our Club and the National Trust, but it seems safe to predict that close relations will develop once the initial period of settling-in is over, and that Field Clubs will play an essential part in conservation work in the Province.

H. G. HEAL, Chairman, Conservation sub-committee.

HANS SLOANE MEMORIAL FUND PRIZEWINNERS, 1966

At a meeting held in the Ulster Museum on 30th December, 1966, Sir Graham Larmor in the chair, the awards were handed over by Dr Robert Marshall. The prizewinners: 1st?Richard G. Crilly, Newry Grammar School; 2nd?Michael E. Oallender, Methodist College, Belfast; 3rd?James A. Cochrane,

Coleraine Academical Institution; received ten, five and three guineas, and each a certificate. The winner of the first prize also received a copy of the memorial

medal. Previous notices of the scheme will be found in this Journal, viz.: October, 1963; April, 1964; April, 1965 and October, 1966.

E.N.C.

CORRESPONDENCE SEABIRD BREEDING DISTRIBUTION SURVEY

Sir,?In 1969 the Seabird Group intends to carry out "Operation Seafarer", a general census of the seabirds breeding in the British Isles which will combine the ten-year censuses of fulmar and gannet which fall due in that year with counts of selected other species. In preparation for this task the Group is this year organizing "Seafarer's Pilot"?a preliminary survey of the distribution of breeding seabirds around our coasts. This project will establish the presence or absence of each species in each of the coastal ten-kilometre squares of the National and Irish Grids, and where possible, will provide information about the order of abundance of each species at its stations.

In Ireland the problems posed by shortage of manpower and the hundreds of miles of inaccessible coastline have forced the organization of a breeding seabird census to be spread over a five-year period as the "Irish

Breeding Populations Survey 1966-70". This Survey is being conducted in close co-operation with the work of the Seabird Group Census Committee, the

Organizer, Oscar Merne, being the Irish representative.' Ornithologists who are not already participating in the Survey are

invited to do so by writing to the Organizer at 1 Corrig Park, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, whilst anyone with information from past years fcr on English or Scottish colonies from holiday visits (including trips during this season) may obtain forms for the "Seafarer's Pilot" project from the same* address or from the undersigned.?Yours, etc.

RAYMOND J. O'CONNOR. Department of Physics, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, W.C.I.

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