Letters

01 July 1959
Comments Letters B L A C K B I R D S F E E D I N G ON M A R I N E W O R M S S I R S , -- I can confirm the note by Mr. Roger Harkness (antea, p. 97) on Blackbirds (Turdus merula) feeding on marine worms, strangely enough from the same part of Hampshire--at Hill Head, whic...
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Notes

01 July 1959
Comments Notes Duration of dives of Black-throated Diver.--In Sutherland on -25th May 1955 we were able to make continuous observations for nearly four hours on the diving of a Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica). T h e site was a loch half a mile wide and seven miles ...
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Migration of the Oystercatcher

01 July 1959
Comments Main paper ONE OF THE tentative conclusions reached in E. J. M. Buxton's paper on this subject (antea, vol. L, pp. 519-526) was that mature Oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) "do not move so far away from their breeding area as immature birds". This conclusion c...
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Letters

01 June 1954
Comments Letters SIRS,--I am grateful to Mr. Ivan M. Goodbody for his comments (antea, p. 32) on my paper on the nocturnal migration of thrushes (antea, vol. xlvi, pp. 37°-374)' It is indeed possible that the coasting movement at Dun Laoghaire was unnatural. With the com...
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Reviews

01 June 1954
Comments Reviews The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland. Report for 1952. Compiled by R. A. O. Hickling and R. E. Pochin and obtainable from the former at 223, Swithland Lane, Rothley Plain, Leics. 24 pp. with map. 2s. 6d. CLASSIFIED notes, given in the Wetmore order, co...
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Notes

01 June 1954
Comments Notes female Scaup (Ay thy a tnarila) occurred at Cheddar reservoir, Somerset, on November 26th, 1952. The party had suddenly surfaced not more than twenty yards from the observer, and apparently becoming alarmed they quickly swam away, beginning as they did so...
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