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Request for information Committee on toxic chemicals

01 September 1960 Comments Editorials A Joint Committee of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology has now been formed, under the Chairmanship of Stanley Cramp, to study the effects of toxic chemicals on birds. The Committee is anxious to obtain any...

Recent Reports and News

01 September 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...

Notes

01 September 1960 Comments Notes Curlew Sandpipers wintering in Lancashire.--On 2nd January i960, I saw a Curlew Sandpiper {Calidris testacea) on the mud-flats of the Ribble Estuary at Lytham, Lancashire. O n 12th February there were three there and from then until April up to six were s...

Studies of less familiar birds 106. Lesser Grey Shrike

01 September 1960 Comments Main paper only 22 records of the Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanitts minor) in the British Isles were admitted and five of those cannot now be accepted. Only 17 Lesser Grey Shrikes in nearly a hundred years since the first was identified in 1842--yet from the autumn of 195...

Nearctic birds in Great Britain and Ireland in autumn 1958

01 September 1960 Comments Main paper vagrant birds from across the Atlantic appeared in Great Britain and Ireland. The species involved included ones with normal distributions ranging from western Greenland and arctic Canada south to the eastern United States and Florida. Shorebirds and wate...

Letter

01 February 1943 Comments Letters SIRS,--As the Statement in The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. III, p. 109) that the Osprey (Pandion h. hali/ztus) last bred at Loch Arkaig in 1902 is incorrect this should be corrected. A pair nested regularly ever since I can remember up to 1908 and the...

Notes

01 February 1943 Comments Notes IN February, 1942, seventy-five nesting boxes were put up inone of the oak woods of the Forest of Dean, with the object of encouraging the breeding of insectivorous birds (tits, in particular) and thus alleviating, if possible, the recurrent outbreaks of...

How a Cuckoo Laid into a Reed-Warbler's Nest

01 February 1943 Comments Main paper FOR long I wondered how the Cuckoo (Cuculus c. canorus) placed her feet when she was " sitting on a nest " and laying her egg, so I determined to try filming one when she was victimising Reed-Warbiers (Acrocephalus s, scirpaceus) close to New Romney, Kent...

The Age of the Blackbird

01 February 1943 Comments Main paper THE potential age, the age to which birds can live, has been the subject of several papers, the earlier ones based on records in captivity, e.g. Gurney (1899), Mitchell (1911), Flower (1925), and the later ones on ringing returns, e.g. Witherby (1926), Ni...

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Request for information Committee on toxic chemicals

Recent Reports and News

Notes

Studies of less familiar birds 106. Lesser Grey Shrike

Nearctic birds in Great Britain and Ireland in autumn 1958

Letter

Notes

How a Cuckoo Laid into a Reed-Warbler's Nest

The Age of the Blackbird

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