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Points of View. 11. Identification: it's a beginning

01 November 1984 Comments Main paper Identification: it's a beginning First identify; secondly study; then interpret. Before studying, say, the behaviour of a species, or the birdlife of an area, it is necessary to learn to identify the bird, or the birds, likely to be encountered...

Mystery Photographs

01 November 1984 Comments Main paper It is early November; the willows and hawthorns around the pond at the edge of the wood are shedding their leaves, but enough remain to provide some concealment for the birds that go there to drink and bathe. As we watch, a small bird moves cautiously ...

Report on Rare Birds in Great Britain in 1983

01 November 1984 Comments Main paper This is our twenty-sixth report. For the second year, the work of the Rarities Committee was supported by the very welcome sponsorship of Zeiss West Germany. This financial assistance is greatly appreciated; it enables us to cope with the publication o...

Plumage changes observed in an Iceland Gull in Somersetshire

01 December 1934 Comments Main paper THE Iceland Gull (Larus leucopterus), previously recorded in these pages from the Bristol district, has been observed on a number of occasions since the last published note (antea, Vol. XXVII., pp. 170-1), the latest being on October 7th, 1934. With the e...

Territory in the Great Crested Grebe

01 December 1934 Comments Main paper I N their review of territory in bird life, D. and L. Lack (6) consider t h a t the claims for territory have been much exaggerated and that, especially, there is not adequate proof in any species t h a t territorial behaviour has food value. I t was furt...

On a flock of Razorbills in Middlesex Found to be Infested with Intestinal flukes

01 December 1934 Comments Main paper ON October 26th, 1934, a Razorbill (Alca torda) was sent to the Bird Room of the British Museum, in the flesh, by Mr. John Stilgoe, Chief Engineer of the Hampton Waterworks, who had recovered it from the Littleton Reservoir, where it had been picked up de...

The Names of the Song-Thrushes

01 December 1934 Comments Main paper IN the article on " Additions and Alterations to the British List" in the September issue of this magazine it was stated (p. 96) that the proposed alterations in the names of the Song-Thrushes would be postponed here until the point regarding the name phi...

Some Breeding-Habits of the British Willow-Tit

01 November 1934 Comments Main paper F, WITHEEBY has recently described methods by which the Willow-Tit [Partis a. kleinschmidti) bores its nestinghole [aniea, Vol. XXVII., pp. 320-324). Unfortunately the pair of birds which he had under observation deserted the site before the nesting-hole...

Supplementary Notes on the Breeding-Habits of the Corn-Bunting as observed in North Cornwall in 1934

01 November 1934 Comments Main paper THESE notes on the Corn-Bunting [Emberiza c. calandra) are the results of further observations undertaken during the breeding-season of 1934 and should be read in conjunction with the work already done and published in British Birds, Vol. XXVIII., pp. 2-2...

An Attacking Tawny Owl

01 October 1934 Comments Main paper SOME few years ago I decided to enlarge upon the ordinary types of nesting-boxes, with which the garden was already overstocked, and to branch out on a new line. Accordingly I constructed three very large and spacious boxes, which I deemed would be quite...

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