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The Wildfowl Trust The sixteenth Annual Report of The Wildfowl Trust Edited by Hugh Boyd Illustrated by Peter Scott Printed for t h e w i l d f o w l t r u s t by THE BERKSHIRE PRINTING CO. LTD., Reading, Berks., England, 1965 The Wildfowl Trust Patron her m ajesty the queen President H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., K.T. Vice-Presidents Captain R. G. W. Berkeley The Rt. Hon. The Lord Howick o f Glendale, G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O. General Sir Gerald Lathbury, G.C.B., D.s.o., m .b .e . Sir Percy Lister Trustees His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, k .g ., p .c ., g .c .v .o . The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Mansfield Major R. J. G. Berkeley H. H. Davis H. C. Drayton Hon. Treasurer Guy Benson Hon. Director Peter Scott, c .b .e ., d .s .c ., l l .d . Council Dr. Bruce Campbell E. A. Maxwell Michael Crichton R. E. M. Pilcher, F.R.C.S. J. O. Death Dr. G. W. Storey Capt. J. A. Fergusson- Miss P. Talbot Ponsonby Cuninghame Sir Landsborough Thomson, J. J. Jamieson C.B., O.B.E., D.SC., LL.D. G. M . JollifFe, F.L.A.s. Major General C.B. K . Miller Jones Wainwright, c.B . Christopher Marler J. P. Williams Invited to attend A. G. Hurrell (Ministry of Council Meetings Education Assessor) ex-officio Finance Committee Guy Benson (Chairman) R. C. P. Hollond Michael Crichton J. J. Jamieson J. O. Death K . Miller Jones H. C. Drayton Miss P. Talbot Ponsonby James Fisher Scientific Sir Landsborough Thomson Prof. R. A. Hinde Advisory {Chairman) R. C. Homes Committee Prof. A. J. Cain Sir Julian Huxley, f .r .s . Dr. Bruce Campbell Dr. L. Harrison Matthews, R. K. Cornwallis F.R.S. Dr. H. D. Crofton R. E. Moreau Dr. J. H. Crook R. E. M. Pilcher Dr. G. M. Dunnet Dr. G. W. Storey Prof. K. R. L. Hall Dr. W. H. Thorpe, f .r .s . Prof. J. E. Harris, f .r .s . Major General C. B. Dr. J. G. Harrison Wainwright Contents Section I Annual Report 1963-64 REPORT Page 5 17th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 7 ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECE M BE R , 1963 8 BALANCE SHEET, 31st D ECE M BE R , 1963 10 THE COLLECTIONS 12 THE RESEARCH UNIT 17 Section 2 Year-book for 1964 RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION IN GREAT BRITAIN Trends in the population of British wintering ducks, 1961-64. G. L. Atkinson-Willes and J. C. Frith 21 Lead poisoning in the Slimbridge wildfowl collection, 1959-64 J. V. Beer and P. Stanley 30 Breeding success of White-fronted Geese from the Nenets National Area. Hugh Boyd 34 Brent Geese in western Europe during the winters of 1962-63 and 1963-64. P. J . K . Burton 40 Birds at Borough Fen Decoy 1964. W. A . Cook 44 The assessment by grazing trial of goose damage to grass. Janet Kear 46 The reaction of captive Mallard to grain treated with a commercial bird repellent. Janet Kear 47 Wader ringing by the Wildfowl Trust, 1959-64. M. A. Ogilvie 48 Nests and eggs of Greylag Geese in Galloway. J. G. Young 54 Organic chlorine insecticide residues in Goosanders and Red-breasted Mergan­ sers. C. H. Walker and D. H. Mills 56 The display flights of Shelduck. John Hori 58 RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION OVERSEAS Wildfowl and wildfowling in Bulgaria. Nikolai Boev 58 Breeding of the Cape Barren Goose on the Anser and Glennie Islands, Victoria. D. F. Dorward and G. M. Pizzey 64 The ecology and numbers of aquatic birds on the Kafue Flats, Zambia. R. J. Dowsett and A. ds Vos 67 Observations on some aberrant Australian Anatidae. Paid A. Johnsgard 73 Returns from Steller’s Eiders banded in Izembek Bay, Alaska. Robert D. Jones, Jr. 83 The prospects for wild geese in the Netherlands. T. Lekret 85 Spacing and chasing in breeding ducks. D. F. McKinney 92 Breeding success of geese in west Spitsbergen 1964 M . Norderhaug, M. A. Ogilvie and R .J. F. Taylor 106 The numbers of waterfowl in Estonia. SvennOnno 110 The nesting and some other habits of Alopochen, Nettapus, Plectropterus and Sarkidiomis. Captain C. R. S. Pitman 115 White-headed Ducks in West Pakistan. Christopher Savage 121 Wildfowl Survey in south-west Asia: a progress report. Christopher Savage 123 The geese of Wrangel Island. S. M. Uspenski 126 Shinhama - the Imperial Duck Decoy Peter Scott. 129 REVIEWS 131 Section 1 Annual Report 1963-64 Council and Committees move the Acrow Tower to a new vantage The Officers, Council and Committees of point, affording a greatly improved view the Trust, as at 31st December, 1964 are of the estuary. The third area is being shown on page 2. Council meetings were developed as a corridor to give visitors held in 1963 on 15th January, 19th March, access to observation hides without the 14th May and 6th October. The Finance necessity of an escort. Early in the year the Committee met on 25th February, 29th Curator’s staff constructed a water garden September and 8th December. The annual on the slopes of the Tump and in the meeting of the Scientific Advisory Com­ summer the new heated aviaries ana mittee was held on 19th March. the new rearing area at the far end of the. Rushy Pen were completed with a new Annual General Meeting and Dinner observation post giving views of the sur­ The Seventeenth Annual General Meeting rounding fields. The House Pond in the was held at the Royal Society of Arts on Rushy Pen was enlarged by the creation of 14th May, and the Annual Dinner took an artificial delta. A new pond was exca­ place at the Hyde Park Hotel the same vated in front of the Research Centre and evening. At the dinner The Lord Howick with this pcnd in the foreground a splendid of Glendale, g.c.m .g., k.c.v.o., presided and vista from the windows of the Centre the speakers were Henry Williamson, Peter towards the Acrow Tower was opened up Scott, C.B.E., d.s.c., ll.d ., Norman Collins by some tree felling in the Big Pen. At and Kenneth Harris. The minutes of the Peakirk the Trust acquired an additional Annual General Meeting will be found on 2-15 acres which will be developed in 1965 page 7. as an extension to the grounds. Development The Research Centre In the course of 1964 the Trust was able A notable milestone in 1964 was the con­ to lease three additional small areas at struction of Phase I of a Research Centre, Slimbridge totalling about 2-8 acres. One which was begun in April and nearly of these provided a site for the Research completed by the end of the year. The Centre and another made it possible to upper storey of this first phase of the ANNUAL REPORT 5 building provides work rooms for the junior prize was won by Gloucester Girls Trust’s Research Unit and a library: the High School by one point from a Beau- ground floor comprises exhibition space desert Park pair. and a lecture room. Although the labora­ tory and museum will have to stay where Borough Fen Decoy they are until we have funds for Phase II, We are again indebted to Mr. and Mrs. we shall immediately have greatly improved R. E. M. Pilcher for opening the duck working conditions for our scientists; in decoy at Borough Fen to visitors on two addition we shall be able to show an days in May. exhibition illustrating the Trust’s work on research and conservation and shall be in a Gosling Party position to expand our educational activi­ ties. The annual party for Gosling members was held on 19th December, 1964. Johnny For this we are indebted primarily to Morris talked and showed films to an The Wolfson Foundation and to The appreciative audience of about 200. Nature Conservancy for grants of £15,000 and £9,500 and to contributors to a special Members’ Collections appeal launched by Mr. H. C. Drayton for this and other development projects, who During the year the following members subscribed altogether £9,710. kindly showed their collections of water­ fowl to fellow members of the Trust: Identification Competition Arthur Cadman, T. Curtis, J. O. Death, The Trust’s third Wildfowl Identification A. W. E. Fletcher, R. Law, Miss E. Competition for Schools was held at the Manasseh, E. A. Maxwell, Mrs. B. New Grounds on 7th March in bitterly Micheli, Mrs. C. Mumford, F. W. cold weather. Sixty-four boys and girls Perowne, R. E. M. Pilcher, G. R. Pryor, from 16 schools took part. Leighton Park G. L. Reid, Shrewsbury School, E. O. again entered several strong teams and had Squire, R. J. Stainsby, Noel Stevens, Mrs. three teams in the first five places in the T. V. Upton, J. P. Williams, D. Wintle. Senior Competition: their A team won the first prize from Monmouth, thus reversing Visitors last year’s result. In the middle age group The fine weather in the summer of 1964 a team from Acklam Hall, who had brought a record total of visitors to the travelled 250 miles from Middlesbrough, Trust’s collections. A comparison with came first with Winchester second. The recent years is shown below. i960 1961 1962 1963 1964 Slimbridge 102,555 151,533 162,030 130,143 151,180 Peakirk 26,531 33*203 30*982 29,434 43*678 129,086 184,736 193,012 159=577 194,85s Finance In 1964 the Trust’s income provided which can be applied to other development enough revenue for the developments projects and in 1964 the Trust received a mentioned above, with a margin for further generous gift of £5,000 from an anony­ repayment in 1965 of outstanding loans.
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