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Peregrines and homing pigeons

01 April 1955 Comments Main paper I N A L L C O U N T R I E S where there are still Peregrines {Falcoperegrinus), and where pigeon-racing is widely practised by different sections of the community, there is generally a marked antagonism between those interested in birds of prey and their ...

Changes in the status of birds of prey in Europe

01 April 1955 Comments Main paper breeding status of diurnal birds of prey in Europe and the factors which have brought about increases or decreases during the last century; it ·excludes the owls because too little is known about many of them. It is based on an extensive survey of the li...

Toxic chemicals and birds of prey

01 April 1955 Comments Main paper prey in the 19th and early 20th centuries, due to the increased efficiency of fire-arms, to collecting and, above all, to the spread of game preservation, was followed in the cases of most of them by a general improvement in status which lasted until abou...

Ornithology in action

01 April 1955 Comments Main paper O N E O F T H E O U T S T A N D I N G features of British ornithology today is the continuous flow of energy from watching to systematic investigation, from investigation to settled conclusions, and from conclusions to practical action, while action in tu...

The fledging of a brood of Ravens

01 April 1955 Comments Main paper the fledging of a brood of five young Ravens (Corvus corax) on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire. T h e island supports only one breeding pair and that year they had nested on the north-facing Guillemots' or Ravens' cliff, choosing a ledge only some 15 to 20 feet f...

Some photographic studies of the Yellowthroat

01 April 1955 Comments Main paper (Plates 21-24) IN place of the Sylviidae so widespread throughout the Old World, there is in America a family of wood warblers, the Parulidae, which includes more than 50 species of a number of genera that are not represented at all in the Palaearctic. Un...

The passage of Black Terns through Britain in Spring 1954

01 April 1955 Comments Main paper W H E N it became apparent in May 1954 that there had again been a large passage of Black Terns (Chlidonias niger) through Britain, R, F . Dickens and Alec Butterfield undertook to prepare a summary of the movement. As records later came in, showing an un...

Yellowthroat on Lundy

01 April 1955 Comments Main paper ON 4th November 1954 a first winter male Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) was trapped on Lundy Island, Devon, detained overnight, and released the following morning after being ringed. It had not been seen before it was c a u g h t , but may well have...

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...

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