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01 May 1957 Comments Notes Vagrants at Skokholm in September 1956.--At Skokholm the period gth-i2th September 1956 was one of outstanding interest, with consid'erable variety of common migrants and four species which are major rarities in Wales. T w o juvenile Ortolan Buntings (Emb...

Field-notes on some birds of South-East Europe: LXXXI. Ortolan Bunting

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper T H E S E notes are compiled from field-observations made by the writers in south-east Europe in the autumn of 1956. W e travelled via Venice and the Adriatic (28th August-2nd September), through Greece (Athens, 3rd-5th September; Delphi, 6th-8th Septembe...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper Photographed by K. (Plates 33-35) only a vagrant in Britain, the Ortolan Bunting (Emberisa hortulana) has a wide distribution in the Palaearctic region, breeding in most parts of Continental Europe from Spain in the south to the arctic circle in the north...

The past and present status of the Buzzard in the British Isles

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper MYXOMATOSIS spread from the Continent of Europe to the British Isles late in the summer of 1953. The Buzzard (Buteo buteo), which was known to feed extensively on Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), was likely to be indirectly affected by the disease, so tha...

Reviews

01 May 1957 Comments Reviews By a Committee of the London Natural History Society (Chairman: R. C. Homes). (Collins, London, 1957). 305 pages, 40 photographs, 5 maps. 30s. O F THE MANY and varied ways in which man has stamped his history and methods of life upon the surface of the w...

Simultaneous Watch for migrant Swifts, May 11th, 1947

01 May 1948 Comments Main paper IN the spring of 1947 the British Trust for Ornithology invited as many as possible of its members and others interested to undertake a simultaneous watch of the movements of Swifts (Apus a. apus) on a pre-selected day--May n t h , 1947.Five similar watch...

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01 May 1948 Comments Notes ON December 18th, 1946, I saw a Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocaiactes subsp.?) about two miles west of Turners Hill, Sussex. It flew across the road and settled in a tree about 35 yards away in full view. I was able to watch the bird for about three minute...

The index of Heron population, 1947

01 May 1948 Comments Main paper THE number of heronries on which reports for 1947 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 158, or 13 less than in the previous year. Of these 122 were in England, 6 in Wales, 11 in Scotland and 19 in Ireland. We are indebted to 63 informants, of wh...

PALLAS'S GRASSHOPPER - WARBLER (LOCUSTELLA CERTHIOLA) IN IRELAND

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Field-notes on some birds of South-East Europe: LXXXI. Ortolan Bunting

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds

The past and present status of the Buzzard in the British Isles

Reviews

Simultaneous Watch for migrant Swifts, May 11th, 1947

Notes

The index of Heron population, 1947

PALLAS'S GRASSHOPPER - WARBLER (LOCUSTELLA CERTHIOLA) IN IRELAND

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