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BESIDES those activkies already in progress, the annual report of the British Section of the International Committee for Bird Preservation describes the formation of an International Wildfowl Research Institute. Accommodation for the new Institute has b ei provided at the Zoological Museum, Tring, and Dr. E. Hindle, scientific director of the Zoological Society of London, has been appointed honorary director. The Institute will be the international centre for existing and projected research into matters affecting wildfowl, and, it is hoped, will also build up study collections (including specimens, photographs, slides and films), which could be used for exhibitions designed to arouse a wider interest in wildfowl. Other items in the report include information collected by wildfowl counts during 1947–48 ; a list of counties which have agreed to give complete protection to the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) for a period of five years; an account of the action taken to prevent the netting of geese on the Wash at Holbeach and details of the ringing of wild duck being carried out at Orielton, Abbotsbury and Slimbridge. In the report there is also a full description of the British Wildfowl Exhibition which was held in London, and an account of various conferences which were held with other European members of the International Committee for Bird Preservation.
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Bird Preservation. Nature 164, 519 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164519c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164519c0