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Probably hybridisation between Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler

01 June 1983 Comments Main paper ...

Mystery photographs: Common Chiffchaff

01 October 1979 Comments Main paper Any Phylloscopus warbler which shows an obvious single wing-bar is bound to attract attention. Of the European species, this is supposed to be a mark only of Greenish P. trochiloides or Arctic Warbler P. borealis, both rare in Britain. . Last mont...

Mystery photographs

01 November 1977 Comments Main paper The fine bill, distinctive face pattern and rounded crown give the warbler (plate 123, page 456, repeated at reduced size here) the look of a typical Phylloscopus. Without wing-bars or prominent supercilium, it looks rather ordinary, and there is nothi...

"Northern Chiffchaffs" and their area of origin

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Letters

01 January 1966 Comments Letters Birds trapped by sludge or m u d Sirs,--I was most interested to read the note by G. L. Webber {Brit. Birds, 5 8: 296-297) on 'Birds trapped by sludge on a sewage farm'. I have found at Freckleton sewage farm and various other sites in Lancashire, includi...

Notes on the summer food of the Kestrel in northern Ireland

01 April 1965 Comments Main paper Fakotinnunculusis perhaps the most common member of the Falconiform.es to be found in the British Isles and, as such, its prey in England has been the subject of a number of papers, notably those of Ellis (1946), Davis (i960) and Simms (1961). However, ve...

Letters

01 November 1960 Comments Letters "Kestrel pellets at a winter roost" Sirs,--I read with interest the paper by T. A. W. Davis on his examination of pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) at winter roosts in Pembrokeshire {Brit. Birds, 53: 281-284). May I, however, make one small correcti...

Kestrel pellets at a winter roost

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper D U R I N G T H E W I N T E R of 1958-59 I collected 113 pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) beneath roosts in a disused quarry near the Dale estuary, Pembrokeshire. The quarry is on a steep bracken-covered hillside surrounded by farmland and the salt...

Notes

01 September 1959 Comments Notes with Mackerel shoals.--During- the months of July, August and September, Mackerel (Scomber scomber) habitually enter the Village Bay of Hirta, St, Kilda, in the late afternoon and evening. These shoals are often pursued by Grey Seals (Halichoerus gryphus)...

Influences causing fluctuation of warbler population in cultivated lands and oak Woods in the Severn Valley

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper IN November, 1935 (antea, vol. xxix, pp. 158-166), I published Notes on Population Problems and Territorial Habits of Chiffchaffs and Willow-Warblers." This was the result of observations over the years 1927 to 1935 in one area oi farm land and another of...

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Probably hybridisation between Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler

Mystery photographs: Common Chiffchaff

Mystery photographs

"Northern Chiffchaffs" and their area of origin

Letters

Notes on the summer food of the Kestrel in northern Ireland

Letters

Kestrel pellets at a winter roost

Notes

Influences causing fluctuation of warbler population in cultivated lands and oak Woods in the Severn Valley

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