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01 June 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' judgement alone, from sources generallyfound to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

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01 June 1960 Comments Notes Piracy by GadwalL--On 30th December 1959, near Cley, Norfolk, we watched four Gadwall (Anas strepera) worrying a drake Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina), apparently with the aim of robbing it of its food. They followed it very closely and whenever it div...

Some notes on the Rufous Warbler

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper T H I S P A P E R is based primarily on observations made from May to October 1958 at Khanaqin in eastern Iraq, a border town on the banks of the Alwand River in the foothills of the Jebel Hamrin Mountains, about 90 miles north-east of Baghdad. When I arr...

The distribution and numbers of Kittiwakes and Guillemots at St. Kilda

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper T H E R E A R E several reasons why no attempt has previously been made to describe in detail the distribution and numbers of the Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) and the Guillemot (Uria aalge) at St. Kilda. The colonies are extremely difficult of access, bei...

Juvenile and winter plumages of the Marsh terns

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper Migration Research Officer, B.T.O. (Plate 36) I D E N T I F I C A T I O N of the three British marsh terns (Chlidonias spp.) outside the breeding season has long constituted a problem for the bird-watcher. There is a cautionary note in The Handbook of Bri...

Lesser Short-toed Larks in Cos. Kerry, Wexford and Mayo : a bird new to Britain and Ireland

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper A H I G H L Y I N T E R E S T I N G a n d fully a c c e p t e d a d d i t i o n t o t h e list of t h e b i r d s of Britain a n d I r e l a n d t h a t has n o t yet received full n o t i c e in this j o u r n a l is t h e Lesser S h o r t - t o e d L a ...

The index of heron population

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper The number of heronries on which reports for 1949 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 162, or 16 more than in the previous year. Of these 117 were in England, 9 in Wales, 17 in Scotland and 19 in Ireland. We are indebted to 79 informants of who...

The Behaviour Of Corn-Crakes

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper MASON DURING the past few years the writer, with the help of friends, has carried out a series of experiments with Corn-Crakes {Crex crex) The experiments consist in calling up Corn-Crakes to a stuffed dummy by imitating the " crake-crake " song with a p...

On The Courtship And Social Displays Of Three Species Of Auk

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper CONDER DURING the summer of 1947 I had opportunities of watching the breeding displays of the Razorbill (Aha torda), the Guillemot (Una aalge), and the Puffin (Fratercula arctica) on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire. The displays of the three species occurred chi...

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01 September 1941 Comments Notes A NEST of this bird (Muscicapa s. striata) was begun on May 27th, 1941 on the top of a nesting-box in an alcove of my house in Bucks, but was later abandoned, owing probably to the nesting material slipping off the smooth lid. The Flycatchers then turned...

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Recent reports and news

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Some notes on the Rufous Warbler

The distribution and numbers of Kittiwakes and Guillemots at St. Kilda

Juvenile and winter plumages of the Marsh terns

Lesser Short-toed Larks in Cos. Kerry, Wexford and Mayo : a bird new to Britain and Ireland

The index of heron population

The Behaviour Of Corn-Crakes

On The Courtship And Social Displays Of Three Species Of Auk

Notes

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