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01 November 1996 Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...

Recent reports

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...

News and comment

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...

Looking Back

01 November 1996 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1995

01 November 1996 Comments Main paper After another year of excellent co-operation with many people, the British Birds Rarities Committee presents a comprehensive Report. The BBRC may be perceived as isolated and remote, but it is part of a network involving individual observers, county re...

Reviews

01 February 1964 Comments Reviews A Study of Bird Song. By Edward A. Armstrong. Oxford University Press, London, 1963. x i v + 3 3 5 pages; 17 plates; 43 figures and 14 tables. 45 s. Far more work has been done on the vocal behaviour of birds than of all other animals combined. Much of it...

Notes

01 February 1964 Comments Notes Unusual numbers of sea-birds at Teesmouth in August 1962.--In August 1962 huge concentrations of Sprats Clupea sprattus appeared in the bay and estuary of the River Tees, on the border of Co. Durham and Yorkshire. Many of the fish entering the mouth of th...

Measurements and Weights Of Great Black-Backed Gulls

01 February 1964 Comments Main paper marine gulls and this short paper is intended t o give some idea of the size range and sex differences within a single population of Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinus. T h e individuals concerned were collected during a gull control programme on Skok...

Oystercatchers and Mussels

01 February 1964 Comments Main paper I N T H E S U M M E R O F 1961, on the Drigg Peninsula near Ravenglass, Cumberland, a pair of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostrakgus made their nest on a relatively bare sandy area about eight yards square and surrounded by a dense growth of nettles Urtica s...

Observations on The St. Kilda Wren

01 February 1964 Comments Main paper hirtensis (plate 8b) has long excited the interest of naturalists. It was Martin (1698) who first mentioned Wrens on this lonely archipelago almost forty miles beyond the Outer Hebrides. The many subsequent accounts have been summarised by Armstrong (1953...

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