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Young Ornithologists of the year

01 December 1996 Comments Main paper The judges assembled again at 'Fountains' for another thoroughly enjoyable day of comparing and assessing the field notebooks (and more-permanent records) of some of the top young birders and birdwatchers in Britain and Ireland. The standard of the lea...

Reviews

01 February 1951 Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory Reports, 1940--'46, 1947, 1948, 1949. (t940-'46 out of print; others obtainable from Col. H. Allen, D.S.O., M.B.E., The Red House, Heywood Lane, Tenby, price 2/6). These four reports cover a long and chequered period of Skokholm...

Notes

01 February 1951 Comments Notes ...

The effect of a snow-storm on breeding birds

01 February 1951 Comments Main paper THE purpose of this paper is to summarize the effect of the severe snow-storm of April 26th, 1950, on a number of breeding birds, whose nests were under daily observation at the Imperial College Field Station, Silwood Park, Sunninghill, Berkshire, in conn...

Notes on the breeding habits of the Swift

01 February 1951 Comments Main paper DURING the years 1944-1949 some 250 visits were made to the tower of S S . Philip and James Church, Ilfracombe, Devon, in order to study the breeding habits of the Swift (Apus apus). These visits were made at hours ranging from 6.00 to 24.00, B.S.T. The n...

Obituary: Bernard William Tucker (1901-1950)

01 February 1951 Comments Obituaries IT is not much over ten years since Harry Witherby called Bernard Tucker to assist him with the editing' of this Magazine after the death of F . C. R. Jourdain, and it is little more than seven years since, on Harry Witherby's own death, the editorial res...

Field notes on the nesting habits of the Great Northern Diver

01 January 1950 Comments Main paper (Plates 1--9). THE following notes on the Great Northern Diver (Colymbus immer) were made chiefly at a nest on the great lake of Thingvallavatn in South-west Iceland during June, 1949. They are supplemented by field notes made during the previous June in ...

The pseudo-sleeping attitude of the Oyster-catcher

01 January 1950 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory) IT IS well-known from the work of Makkink (1942) and Edwards et al. (1948) that in certain situations the Oyster-catcher (Hcematopus ostralegus) adopts a " pseudo-sleeping " attitude. The bird stands on one or both legs, with ...

Letters

01 January 1950 Comments Letters SIRS,--I have delayed answering the letter on the above subject from Mr. P. H. T. Hartley (British Birds, xli, pp. 254-255) because the data then available only served to justify his remark that " more investigation is needed." I examined the two sets of ...

Reviews

01 January 1950 Comments Reviews [The Editor regrets t h a t owing to an unfortunate period of ill-health a number of reviews and notices of local reports have been considerably delayed. It is hoped to get up to date with these in the numbers immediately following]. Bird Recognition. Vol...

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Young Ornithologists of the year

Reviews

Notes

The effect of a snow-storm on breeding birds

Notes on the breeding habits of the Swift

Obituary: Bernard William Tucker (1901-1950)

Field notes on the nesting habits of the Great Northern Diver

The pseudo-sleeping attitude of the Oyster-catcher

Letters

Reviews

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