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The moult migration of Shelduck from Cheshire in 1956

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Request for information Committee on toxic chemicals

01 September 1960 Comments Editorials A Joint Committee of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology has now been formed, under the Chairmanship of Stanley Cramp, to study the effects of toxic chemicals on birds. The Committee is anxious to obtain any...

Recent Reports and News

01 September 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Notes

01 September 1960 Comments Notes Curlew Sandpipers wintering in Lancashire.--On 2nd January i960, I saw a Curlew Sandpiper {Calidris testacea) on the mud-flats of the Ribble Estuary at Lytham, Lancashire. O n 12th February there were three there and from then until April up to six were s...

Studies of less familiar birds 106. Lesser Grey Shrike

01 September 1960 Comments Main paper only 22 records of the Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanitts minor) in the British Isles were admitted and five of those cannot now be accepted. Only 17 Lesser Grey Shrikes in nearly a hundred years since the first was identified in 1842--yet from the autumn of 195...

Nearctic birds in Great Britain and Ireland in autumn 1958

01 September 1960 Comments Main paper vagrant birds from across the Atlantic appeared in Great Britain and Ireland. The species involved included ones with normal distributions ranging from western Greenland and arctic Canada south to the eastern United States and Florida. Shorebirds and wate...

The "Invasion" type of bird migration

01 August 1957 Comments Main paper FOOD-SHORTAGE IS generally assumed to be involved in those emigrations that are called " i r r u p t i o n s " or " i n v a s i o n s " (these terms of course, being applied in the areas into which the birds come). W h a t it seemed most urgent to explain...

Editorial

01 August 1957 Comments Editorials MANY KIND THINGS have been written in the Press about the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of British Birds, including a leading article in The Times, an editorial in The Field and appreciative notes in Country Life, the Observer and the Sund...

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The moult migration of Shelduck from Cheshire in 1956

Notes

Reviews

Request for information Committee on toxic chemicals

Recent Reports and News

Notes

Studies of less familiar birds 106. Lesser Grey Shrike

Nearctic birds in Great Britain and Ireland in autumn 1958

The "Invasion" type of bird migration

Editorial

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