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01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Letters

01 March 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--Witts reference to your comments on t h e note o n . a Robin feeding a fledgling Blackbird (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p, 355), there is anotheroccurrence of a Robin feeding a brood of young Song-Thrushes mentioned, and illustrated, with three photograph...

Reviews

01 March 1946 Comments Reviews Somerset Archcsol. & Nat. Hist. Soc, Ornithological Section. Report on Somerset Birds, 1944. T H I S contains many valuable records and others of purely local interest. Blagdon Reservoir has been well watched and provides good notes on duck, some in consi...

Notes

01 March 1946 Comments Notes O N March ijth, 1945, I was in a convoy moving slowly south through the'Irish Sea. The day was brilliantly fine, the sea quite calm. In the morning the Welsh Hills were visible, but otherwise we saw neither coast. There was no fog, however. There was a v...

Obituary: Charles Bethune Moffat. (1859-1945)

01 March 1946 Comments Obituaries Betlmne Moffat, to the great regret of his many friends, died on October 14th, 1945. He was born in the Isle of Man on January16th, 1859, being the eldest of the seven children of the late James and Annie Moffat. When Charles was about a year and a half o...

Studies of some species Rarely Photographed. Il. The Lesser White-fronted Goose

01 March 1946 Comments Main paper IL THE LESSER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE Photographed by PETER SCOTT AND GAVIN MAXWELL.* (Plates 11-14). the general intention of this series is naturally to provide illustrations of wild birds photographed under natural conditions, an exception is macle in the...

Lesser White-fronted Geese on the Severn

01 March 1946 Comments Main paper ON December 16th, 1945, there were approximately two thousand geese on the saltings at the New Grounds on the Severn, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire. These were examined almost bird by bird, mostly in good light with occasional sunshine, by four observers...

Fertility and Mortality in the Nest of Swallows

01 March 1946 Comments Main paper IN 1944, as part of a study of the breeding biology of Swallows (Hirundo r. rustica) nesting in the barracks occupied by British prisoners of war at EichstÃ¤tt, Bavaria, a record was kept of all nests. Birds were ringed with rings supplied by Dr. E. Str...

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Looking back

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: Charles Bethune Moffat. (1859-1945)

Studies of some species Rarely Photographed. Il. The Lesser White-fronted Goose

Lesser White-fronted Geese on the Severn

Fertility and Mortality in the Nest of Swallows

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