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01 August 1967 Comments News and comment Wildfowl counts in Northern Ireland.--One of the first tasks to be tackled by the Northern Ireland Ornithologists" Club when it was formed in October 1964 was the planning of a series of wildfowl counts in the Lough Neagh basin, along the lines of those o...

Letters

01 August 1967 Comments Letters Red-headed Buntings in Britain and Ireland Sirs,--D. I. M. Wallace's recent review of 'Birds in Ireland during 1963-65' (Brit Birds, 60: 205-213) refers to the sixth and seventh Irish records of the Red-headed Bunting Emberi^a bruniceps in Co. Cork in Jun...

Notes

01 August 1967 Comments Notes Hirundines taking winged insects from the surface of the sea.--With reference to another note of mine on Swallows Hirundo rustica taking winged insects from the surface of the sea off Tresco, Isles of Scilly, in September 1958 {Brit. Birds, 5 3: 200), I s...

Population changes of some Common birds in gardens

01 August 1967 Comments Main paper organised by the British Trust for Ornithology, now produces annual figures for the population levels of most of the common species of land birds in Britain. Most of the census areas consist of farmland, with fewer areas of woodland and other habitats; an...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1966

01 August 1967 Comments Main paper T H I S IS THE NINTH annual report of the Rarities Committee and has involved consideration of 356 records for 1966, an increase of 23 on the final total for 1965 and of 70 on that for 1964. The proportion of records accepted was 73%, thus maintaining the...

Notes

01 November 1963 Comments Notes IT has long been known that, in the Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) the mandibles cross indifferently on either side in different individuals. Recently, however, for a special purpose, I desired to ascertain whether or not individuals having the man...

Manx Ornithological Notes: 1912-13.

01 November 1963 Comments Main paper THE following notes continue the Manx record from the end of the period covered by the article in BRITISH BIRDS, Vol. V., pp. 300-4, to the end of the year 1913. There is still, probably, a lack of information about some of our smaller species, but the Ye...

A Student of Gulls.

01 November 1963 Comments Main paper THAT Ornithology sustained a heavy potential loss by the death of Ewen Kennedy, in 1909, a t the early age of twenty-eight, is evident by a perusal of his notes, put together in beautiful form* by the loving hand of his sister, Mrs. Maedonald. Beyond a ch...

Letters

01 May 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n t h e article on Incubation, b y Mr, Erie B. Dunlop (antea, p. 109), t h e writer s a y s : " Another bird which rears few young compared to t h e number of eggs it lays is t h e Great-erested Grebe. Four or five eggs are very frequently ...

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Population changes of some Common birds in gardens

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Manx Ornithological Notes: 1912-13.

A Student of Gulls.

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