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01 October 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The beginning of June was exceptional with snow and northerly gales, but a long anticyclonic spell which followed brought dry, warm conditions to most parts. A Red-throated Diver Ga...

News and comment

01 October 1975 Comments News and comment Mammals on Islands In an article in New Scientist for 21st August, Dr W. R. P. Bourne expresses concern about damage to the vegetation of small outlying islands by introduced herbivores. He contrasts the vigorous policy of the New Zealand ...

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01 October 1975 Comments Notes Cormorants roosting on spire In the late summer and autumn of 1973 Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo regularly roosted on Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex. When this habit was first noted in mid-August only two birds were involved, but numbers gr...

Behaviour of an incubating Woodcock

01 October 1975 Comments Main paper In his well-known paper on the breeding habits of the'Woodcock Scolopax rusticola, Steinfatt (1938) records: 'The brooding female only rarely changes her position during the day; she lies for hours on the nest motionless. There seems to be a sort of ri...

Birds in action

01 October 1975 Comments Main paper Bird photographs used to consist mainly of rather static studies at the nest. Then there developed the technique of 'wait and see' photography from hides at likely feeding and drinking places. Now more powerful lenses and more adventurous techniques ha...

A study of the Carrion/Hooded Crow in north-east Scotland

01 October 1975 Comments Main paper Carrion/Hooded Crows Corvus c. corone/cornix were unmolested on my study area from January 1966 to April 1969 as part of a long-term study of Crow predation on eggs of Red Grouse Lagopus I. scoticus. This gave me an unusual opportunity to study Cr...

The spread of Cetti's Warbler in north-west Europe

01 October 1975 Comments Main paper Seventy years ago Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti was practically confined in Europe to the Mediterranean littoral, being found in France only in Provence and the department of Pyrenees Atlantiques (Yeatman 1971). It was considered to be essentially seden...

Letters

01 December 1937 Comments Letters SIRS,--In his article (antea, p . 137) Mr. George Brown notes t h a t a Robin {Erithacus r. melophilus) "appeared t o take quite an interest in the Blackbird's efiorts" before a looking-glass, b u t itself never displayed. Since I read this article a Robi...

Reviews

01 December 1937 Comments Reviews More Songs of Wild Birds. By E. M. Nicholson and Ludwig Koch. (H. F . & G. Witherby.) Gramophone Records and Illustrated. 15s. PERHAPS the best thing t h a t can be said of these three new double records of British Bird songs is t h a t they are even bett...

Notes

01 December 1937 Comments Notes I FIRST noticed a Sky-Lark (Alauda a. arvensis) building amongst rough grass on the West Lancashire Golf Course on June 12th, 1937. The nest then consisted of a hollow in black earth with a partial rim and bottom lining of dry grass, Once when the hen wa...

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Recent reports

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Behaviour of an incubating Woodcock

Birds in action

A study of the Carrion/Hooded Crow in north-east Scotland

The spread of Cetti's Warbler in north-west Europe

Letters

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Notes

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