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Migrants through Malta and Gozo: October, 1941 to July, 1945

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper In Autumn 1941 and spring 1945, I had an opportunity of noting the comings and goings of migrants through the islands of Malta and Gozo. The vast majority of the birds seen were British birds, in so far as they are on the British List, and were passage...

Territory in the Ringed Plover

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper IN July, 1944, I had an opportunity of studying the territorial behaviour of Ringed Plover (Charadrius h. hiaticula), at Malahide, Co. Dublin, where large numbers nest in and around the tern colony. The conditions for observation were exceptionally fav...

Notes on the birds of Abberton Reservoir, Esses

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper ...

Recovery of marked birds

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper Rawdon (Yorks), 24.4.37, by Bramhope (Yorks), 15.7.37. C. Wontner-Smith. Ditto 4-S-37- Allerton (Yorks), 13.8.37. Stodmarsh (Kent), 16.4.33, by Where ringed, --.9.37. Oxford Orn. Soc. R I N G E D AS FULL-GROWN. Gt. Budworth (Ches), 17.7.35, Acton Bridge ...

Birds seen in two winter transects of the North Atlantic

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper bird-counts of the North Atlantic crossing have already appeared, and in these the significance of the figures has been fully discussed. The most comprehensive is by V. C. Wynne-Edwards (Proc. Boston Soc, Nat. Hist., Vol. XL., No. 4, pp. 233-346. January,...

Notes on the Gannetries of Sule Stack and Sula Sgeir

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper (Plate I I . ) IT may be safely said that in a quarter of a century no new information has been added to our previous knowledge of the gannetry of Sule Stack, and with the exception of my notes on Sula Sgeir [10]* these same remarks apply to this latter g...

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