50th Anniversary messages

01 June 1957
Comments Main paper FURTHER to mark our 50 years of continuous publication, we invited comments from a number of distinguished ornithologists, chiefly Editors of other journals, both in this country and abroad. Below, we print a selection of the replies we received.From M. l...
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Editorial: The First Fifty Years

01 June 1957
Comments Editorials Witherby approached many friends and fellow-ornithologists to support a monthly magazine devoted entirely to the study of British birds, which had long been in his mind. A note in his handwriting records how, at the British Ornithologists' Club that Janu...
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Notes

01 June 1957
Comments Notes have asked me to comment briefly on the remarkable photograph of the Penguin-dance of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) published in this issue (plate 48). Comparatively few observers have been fortunate enough to "witness this elaborate form o...
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The Dipper's Winking

01 June 1957
Comments Main paper (Plates 46-47) I HAVE had the opportunity in the last few years to study Dippers (Cinclus cinclus) at very close quarters while photographing them, and in fact have tamed these birds to such a degree that they have sat on my wrist to feed their young betw...
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