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Recent Reports and News

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

Reviews

01 October 1960 Comments Reviews The Voices of Wild Birds in Nature (recordings). Recorded by Boris N . Weprinezev. Published by the Ail-Union Studio of Disc Recordings (No. 6227/8), i960, and to be obtainable through Collets Record Shop, 70 N e w Oxford Street, London, W.C.i. Price prob...

Special review The Helsinki Congress and the future

01 October 1960 Comments Reviews Proceedings of the XII International Ornithological Congress (Helsinki, 5th-i2th June 1958). Edited by G. Bergman, K. O. Donner and L. von Haartman. Tilgmannin Kirjapaino, Helsinki, i960. Vol. I, 436 pages; Vol. II, 384 pages; both with diagrams, maps and...

Notes

01 October 1960 Comments Notes Little Ringed Plover "foot-tapping" to collect food.--On 2nd April i960, at a reservoir near the Suffolk coast, I watched a Little Ringed Plover {Charadrius dubius) feeding on the muddy bottom of a drained pond. It was tripping methodically around and eve...

Observations from a light-vessel on Passerine immigration into the Wash in autumn 1956

01 October 1960 Comments Main paper A L T H O U G H trans-North Sea migration in autumn has previously been studied from East Coast light-vessels, all the earlier accounts have been limited to observations made in the narrower southern part of the North Sea, and refer mainly to immigrants m...

Studies of less familiar birds 107. Needle-tailed Swift

01 October 1960 Comments Main paper such a little known bird as the Needle-tailed Swift (Chaetura caudacutd). The typical race of this species breeds in Siberia (much further west than is suggested by The Handbook--see below), extending south into Mongolia and Manchuria and east to Sakhalin...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain and Ireland in 1959 (with 1958 additions)

01 October 1960 Comments Main paper occurrences (Brit. Birds, 53: 15 3-173), we have continued with the task of considering records for 1959. T h e complete list of species with which we are concerned was published at the time of the announcement of the formation of the Rarity Records Commi...

Notes

01 September 1947 Comments Notes ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking some...

Report of the bird-ringing committee

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper THIS is the tenth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The composition of the Committee remains the same...

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper the co-operation of 64 observers, it has been possible to provide evidence of the breeding of at least ten pairs of Black Redstarts (Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) in England in 1946. A further 13 pairs or singing males occupied territories, but wi...

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Recent Reports and News

Reviews

Special review The Helsinki Congress and the future

Notes

Observations from a light-vessel on Passerine immigration into the Wash in autumn 1956

Studies of less familiar birds 107. Needle-tailed Swift

Report on rare birds in Great Britain and Ireland in 1959 (with 1958 additions)

Notes

Report of the bird-ringing committee

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

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