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...
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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...
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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...
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Report on bird ringing for 1951

01 August 1952
Comments Main paper Bird-Ringing Committee, British Trust for Ornithology. This is the fifteenth r e p o r t ! issued on behalf of the Committee, continuing; the earlier sequence under the title " T h e British Birds Marking S c h e m e . " It is in the form instituted last ...
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Notes

01 August 1952
Comments Notes Rogers informs us that on April i s t , 1950, he watched a Starling {Sturnus vulgaris) attacking a Chrysanthemum. Leaves were torn off, pecked into shreds and left on the ground, b u t were later carried off with other nesting material. Mr. R. G. Finnis r...
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