News and comment

01 December 1966
Comments News and comment The B.O.U. 'Check-List' and 1966 records of rare birds.--The Records Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union hopes to complete the text of the new edition of its standard 'Check-List' by the end of March 1967. This publication will review more full...
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Request for Information

01 December 1966
Comments Editorials Status of Water Pipits in winter.--The discovery that Water Pipits Anthus s. spinohtta are now wintering regularly, perhaps in some numbers, on watercress beds in southern England (see pages 552-554 and plate 81a) has encouraged the British Trust for Orni...
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Letters

01 December 1966
Comments Letters Week-end bias, length of stay of rarities and proportion of rarities undetected Sirs,--Although the effect of 'week-end bias' (the increased watching at week-ends) is often commented on, there appear to be no figures to show exactly how marked it is. In a...
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Reviews

01 December 1966
Comments Reviews The Feathers and Plumage of Birds. By A. A. Voitkevich. Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1966. xvi+335 pages; 74 textfigures and 21 tables. 45 s. One of the 'Biology Series Monographs', this book is unfortunate in its title which suggests a wide and generalise...
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Notes

01 December 1966
Comments Notes Heron eating House Sparrows.--Seton Gordon's recent note and the accompanying editorial comment on Herons Ardeatinereaeating birds {Brit. Birds, 59: 37) prompt me to record similar feeding behaviour by a captive Heron which came into my possession as a ju...
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Notes

01 June 1939
Comments Notes THE recent note about Blackbirds (Turius m. merula) feeding on small fish (antea, Vol. XXXII, p. 397) recalls to me that six or seven years ago I watched a pair take repeatedly small tadpoles from a shallow bay of the Little Exe, above Dulverton. Both bir...
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Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939
Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...
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