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01 November 1964 Comments News and comment Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve.--The ancient name Lindisfame has been officially revived by the Nature Conservancy in its declaration of the first part of a new reserve on the Northumberland coast. This includes the sand-dunes on Holy Island, togethe...

Reviews

01 November 1964 Comments Reviews T h e World of Birds. By James Fisher and Roger Tory Peterson. 288 pages, including 90 with colour lithograph plates of nearly 700 species, more than 200 maps and many half-tone illustrations. Macdonald, London, 1964. 5 gns. Contrary to some expectations,...

Notes

01 November 1964 Comments Notes Manx Shearwater as prey of Peregrine in central Scotland.--On 12th June 1964, near Cairngorm, Inverness-shire, I discovered the remains of an adult Manx Shearwater Procellaria puffinus in the eyrie of a pair of Peregrines Falco peregrinus. The body had be...

Studies of less familiar birds 130. White-tailed Eagle

01 November 1964 Comments Main paper Pandion haliaetus as a breeding species in Scotland, there has been a certain amount of speculation on the possibilities of the return of the White-tailed Eagle Haliaetus albicilla to one of its ancestral haunts. From being at one time commoner than t h e...

The influence of radio waves upon bird

01 November 1964 Comments Main paper The seasonal migration of birds of many species is an established fact, but the means whereby they are able to navigate over the vast distances involved remains a largely unsolved problem which has been reviewed in detail by Matthews (1955) and Dorst (196...

Letters

01 November 1964 Comments Letters SIRS,--It would be interesting to know if the reports published in the popular Press earlier this year stating that large numbers of Rooks were making daily incursions to the Romney Marshes from the French coast, have ever been verified by a competent orn...

Letter

01 December 1942 Comments Letters SIRS,--The interesting and unusual behavtour of a Moorhen (Galhnula ch, chloropus) continually remaining in a semi-submerged position (antea, Vol. xxxvi, p. 57) whilst swimming about, and giving the impression of " not being able to come up " is almost ce...

Notes

01 December 1942 Comments Notes a short visit to Lundy in September, 1942, we identified a Lapland Bunting {Cakarius lapponicus) on the high barren area at the north end of the island on September ioth. The species has not previously been met with on Lundy, nor in the county of Devon. ...

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper IN England a hundred years ago the Black Redstart (Phcenicurus o. gibraltariensis) was only a rare and occasional visitor, but by 1871 Newton in Yarrell was able to give it as a regulÃ¤r winter visitor to south-west England and the Isle of Wight, less r...

Comparative Prices of Game and Wildfowl in 1512, 1757, 1807, 1922, 1941 and 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper THE six comparative 'price-lists printed at the end of this article are mainly of ornithological interest in so far as they show the decline in numbers of certain species of British Birds : at the same time it must be pointed out that the terminology empl...

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Studies of less familiar birds 130. White-tailed Eagle

The influence of radio waves upon bird

Letters

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Notes

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

Comparative Prices of Game and Wildfowl in 1512, 1757, 1807, 1922, 1941 and 1942

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