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Recent reports: January and February 1966

01 March 1966 Comments News and comment (These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated]records) This brief summary is primarily concerned with January and February 1966. Several American species included an American Wigeon Anas americana on the Moray Firth near Inverness from 30th Dece... Read More

Letters

01 March 1966 Comments Letters Birds carrying dead nestlings Sirs,--With reference to the recent note by W. G. Luton on a House Sparrow Passer domesticus carrying a dead nestling, and the accompanying editorial comment (Brit. Birds, 5 8: 443), I am rather surprised that this practice s... Read More

Notes

01 March 1966 Comments Notes Feeding and resting behaviour of a Snowy Owl in Scilly.--During the five months ftom mid-October 1964 t o mid-March 1965 a female Snowy Owl Nyctea scandiaca visited Tresco, Isles of Scilly, for long periods at a time. She was also seen on various other Is... Read More

Pied Wagtails roosting inside greenhouses

01 March 1966 Comments Main paper T H E P U R P O S E of this paper is to bring together data on the communal roosting of Pied Wagtails Motacilla alba yarrellü inside commercial glasshouses. These data are from three sources: references in the British literature (three), personal obser... Read More