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Recent Reports and News

01 October 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not he 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...

Reviews

01 October 1960 Comments Reviews The Voices of Wild Birds in Nature (recordings). Recorded by Boris N . Weprinezev. Published by the Ail-Union Studio of Disc Recordings (No. 6227/8), i960, and to be obtainable through Collets Record Shop, 70 N e w Oxford Street, London, W.C.i. Price prob...

Special review The Helsinki Congress and the future

01 October 1960 Comments Reviews Proceedings of the XII International Ornithological Congress (Helsinki, 5th-i2th June 1958). Edited by G. Bergman, K. O. Donner and L. von Haartman. Tilgmannin Kirjapaino, Helsinki, i960. Vol. I, 436 pages; Vol. II, 384 pages; both with diagrams, maps and...

Notes

01 October 1960 Comments Notes Little Ringed Plover "foot-tapping" to collect food.--On 2nd April i960, at a reservoir near the Suffolk coast, I watched a Little Ringed Plover {Charadrius dubius) feeding on the muddy bottom of a drained pond. It was tripping methodically around and eve...

Observations from a light-vessel on Passerine immigration into the Wash in autumn 1956

01 October 1960 Comments Main paper A L T H O U G H trans-North Sea migration in autumn has previously been studied from East Coast light-vessels, all the earlier accounts have been limited to observations made in the narrower southern part of the North Sea, and refer mainly to immigrants m...

Studies of less familiar birds 107. Needle-tailed Swift

01 October 1960 Comments Main paper such a little known bird as the Needle-tailed Swift (Chaetura caudacutd). The typical race of this species breeds in Siberia (much further west than is suggested by The Handbook--see below), extending south into Mongolia and Manchuria and east to Sakhalin...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain and Ireland in 1959 (with 1958 additions)

01 October 1960 Comments Main paper occurrences (Brit. Birds, 53: 15 3-173), we have continued with the task of considering records for 1959. T h e complete list of species with which we are concerned was published at the time of the announcement of the formation of the Rarity Records Commi...

Seasonal fluctuations in the song of the Sky-Lark

01 February 1947 Comments Main paper ALTHOUGH a great deal has been written on the subject of bird song, relatively little is known about seasonal and daily fluctuations in song output. Alexander's [i, 2] work accounts for a very large number of species and gives the dates between which bir...

Letters

01 February 1947 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference to Colonel Ryves's note (antea, Vol. xxxix, p. 375} oa a clutch of two eggs only, of the Blackbird (Turdus Â»Â». merula), I wish to point out that this number of eggs for a full clutch is not extremely abnormal. I cannot but thin...

Reviews

01 February 1947 Comments Reviews South-Eastern Bird Report, being an Account of Bird-Life in Kent, Surrey and Sussex during 1944. Edited by Ralph Whitlock. Ditto (including Hampshire) for 1945. THE 1944 South-Eastern Report, delayed by printing difficulties, was not available when our no...

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Recent Reports and News

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Special review The Helsinki Congress and the future

Notes

Observations from a light-vessel on Passerine immigration into the Wash in autumn 1956

Studies of less familiar birds 107. Needle-tailed Swift

Report on rare birds in Great Britain and Ireland in 1959 (with 1958 additions)

Seasonal fluctuations in the song of the Sky-Lark

Letters

Reviews

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