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Exhibition by contemporary bird painters

01 November 1960 Comments Editorials A T T H E S U G G E S T I O N of the Reading Ornithological Club, the Reading Art Gallery has made its rooms available for an exhibition of contemporary bird paintings. This Exhibition was opened by Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, K.G., G.C.B., O.M., o...

Recent Reports and News

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

Letters

01 November 1960 Comments Letters "Kestrel pellets at a winter roost" Sirs,--I read with interest the paper by T. A. W. Davis on his examination of pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) at winter roosts in Pembrokeshire {Brit. Birds, 53: 281-284). May I, however, make one small correcti...

Reviews

01 November 1960 Comments Reviews St. Kilda Summer. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Hutchinson, London, 1960. 224 p a g e s ; with photographs, drawings and maps. 25 s. For 27 years after its inhabitants had been evacuated at their own request, St. Kilda was visited only infrequ...

Studies of less familiar birds 108. Little Crake

01 November 1960 Comments Main paper ornithologists turned their attention to live birds. In fact there is possibly no other group, at least in Europe, whose numbers and distribution are shrouded in such uncertainty. Therefore, when the editors obtained some photographs of the Little Crake (...

Northern Waterthrush in the Isles of Scilly: a bird new to Great Britain and Ireland

01 November 1960 Comments Open Access St. Agnes Bird Observatory (Plate 5 9) O N T H E M O R N I N G of 30th September 1958, G.J.H. and R.E.S. discovered at Govean, on the eastern side of St. Agnes, Isles of Stilly, a small ground-feeding bird which they identified as a Northern Waterthrus...

Some notes on the Crested Lark

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper the summer of 1940 until May 1945 we were in various prison camps scattered over Germany and Poland. For most of the time two of us were together. In 1946 one of us was for a short time again in Germany. Crested Larks (Galerida c. cristata) were seen wher...

Letters

01 June 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Royal Naval Bird-Watching Society has now been in existence for just over a year. I t has some t w o hundred and sixty members drawn from the ranks of t h e Royal Navy, Royal Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Navies. These observers range fr...

Notes

01 June 1948 Comments Notes As a member of the local fire brigade I was able to make some close observations on the behaviour of birds at a big oil-tank fire at Pembroke Dock in August and September, 1940. The fire blazed for many days and gave rise to intense heat and an immense c...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XIV. The Spotted Redshank

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper Photographed by OLOF SWANBERG AND ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN. (Plates 17-21). THE present photographs of the Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythrofus) are the first of a long series of remarkable photographs of Scandinavian breeding birds--most of them species occurr...

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Exhibition by contemporary bird painters

Recent Reports and News

Letters

Reviews

Studies of less familiar birds 108. Little Crake

Northern Waterthrush in the Isles of Scilly: a bird new to Great Britain and Ireland

Some notes on the Crested Lark

Letters

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XIV. The Spotted Redshank

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