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01 July 1968 Comments Letters The role of sunbathing in birds Sirs,--Sunbathing has been the subject of repeated comment in British Birds (for example, J. Gibb, 40: 172-174; V. C. Wynne-Edwards, 40: 256; N. Rollin, 41: 304-305; and, more recently, C. W. Teager, 60: 361-363 and D. Good...

Reviews

01 July 1968 Comments Reviews Pigeons and Doves of the World. By Derek Goodwin. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 1967. 446 pages; three colour plates; many maps and line-drawings. £6 6s. In his opening paragraph, Derek Goodwin writes of feral pigeons bri...

Notes

01 July 1968 Comments Notes Little Grebes choking to death on fish.--On ioth March 1968, at Brompton-on-Swale, near Catterick, Yorkshire, J. V. Anderson discovered a freshly dead bird on the river bank, with a fish jammed in its bill. I visited the spot with him the next day and fou...

Studies of less familiar birds:148. Blue Rock Thrush

01 July 1968 Comments Main paper Watching from a crag over the stony slopes of southern Europe, the lone figure of the male Blue Rock Thrush Montkok solitarius (plates 39-40) is a handsome sight with blue-grey body and slaty-black wings and tail. In winter many feathers hare brownish fri...

Reorientation of passerine night migrants after displacement by the wind

01 July 1968 Comments Main paper Edwatd Grey Institute, Oxford Recent radar studies in north-east England (Evans 1966) have shown that, even at night, migrating passerines can compensate for wind drift. Thus they usually fly on chosen tracks rather than chosen headings. This finding cont...

Recent reports

01 July 1968 Comments News and comment As described in the previous issue (Brit. Birds, 61: 277-280), April was exceptional for vagrants from further south in Europe. In contrast, May was less notable in this respect than usual, though there were interesting records throughout the month with n...

News and comments

01 July 1968 Comments News and comment Attempted reintroduction of the White-tailed Eagle.--The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is currently attempting to reintroduce this magnificent raptor to one of its former Scottish haunts. Four young White-tailed Eagles taken, with the sanction...

Letter

01 February 1943 Comments Letters SIRS,--As the Statement in The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. III, p. 109) that the Osprey (Pandion h. hali/ztus) last bred at Loch Arkaig in 1902 is incorrect this should be corrected. A pair nested regularly ever since I can remember up to 1908 and the...

Notes

01 February 1943 Comments Notes IN February, 1942, seventy-five nesting boxes were put up inone of the oak woods of the Forest of Dean, with the object of encouraging the breeding of insectivorous birds (tits, in particular) and thus alleviating, if possible, the recurrent outbreaks of...

How a Cuckoo Laid into a Reed-Warbler's Nest

01 February 1943 Comments Main paper FOR long I wondered how the Cuckoo (Cuculus c. canorus) placed her feet when she was " sitting on a nest " and laying her egg, so I determined to try filming one when she was victimising Reed-Warbiers (Acrocephalus s, scirpaceus) close to New Romney, Kent...

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Studies of less familiar birds:148. Blue Rock Thrush

Reorientation of passerine night migrants after displacement by the wind

Recent reports

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Notes

How a Cuckoo Laid into a Reed-Warbler's Nest

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