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01 September 1969 Comments Reviews Handbuch der Vogel Mitteleuropas. Vols 2 and 3. Anseriformes. Edited by K. M. Bauer and U. N. Glutz von Blotzheim. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main. Vol 2 (1968): 535 P a g es > 5 colour plates; 76 text-figures and maps. Vol 5 (1969): 50...

Notes

01 September 1969 Comments Notes Fish jumping into Heron's mouth On 16th August 1969, at Talybont Reservoir, Breconshire, we saw a Heron Ardea cinerea standing on the edge of a small concrete 'waterfall' about two feet high; it was leaning forward in such a manner that its open bill was ...

Studies of less familiar birds: 155. Little Stint

01 September 1969 Comments Main paper Plates ]j-6o The Little Stint Calidris minuta is regular on passage in Britain and Ireland, chiefly in autumn (late July to mid-October) but also in small numbers in spring (mid-April to early June). In some autumns it is abundant, with flocks running int...

The Hastings Rarities again

01 September 1969 Comments Main paper It was only to be expected that the searching review of the Hastings Rarities in August 1962 (Nelder 1962, Nicholson and Ferguson-Lees 1962) would, in certain circles, cause considerable distress and a desire to rebut, if possible, the arguments which led...

Status and breeding success of Golden Eagles in north-west Sutherland in 1967

01 September 1969 Comments Main paper In recent years the status of the Golden Eagle Aquila chrjsaetos in Scotland has been the subject of concern. Lockie and Ratcliffe (1964) found that the breeding success in Wester Ross fell from about 70% of pairs in 1937-60 to about 30% in 1960-63. At th...

Letters

01 July 1968 Comments Letters The role of sunbathing in birds Sirs,--Sunbathing has been the subject of repeated comment in British Birds (for example, J. Gibb, 40: 172-174; V. C. Wynne-Edwards, 40: 256; N. Rollin, 41: 304-305; and, more recently, C. W. Teager, 60: 361-363 and D. Good...

Reviews

01 July 1968 Comments Reviews Pigeons and Doves of the World. By Derek Goodwin. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 1967. 446 pages; three colour plates; many maps and line-drawings. £6 6s. In his opening paragraph, Derek Goodwin writes of feral pigeons bri...

Notes

01 July 1968 Comments Notes Little Grebes choking to death on fish.--On ioth March 1968, at Brompton-on-Swale, near Catterick, Yorkshire, J. V. Anderson discovered a freshly dead bird on the river bank, with a fish jammed in its bill. I visited the spot with him the next day and fou...

Studies of less familiar birds:148. Blue Rock Thrush

01 July 1968 Comments Main paper Watching from a crag over the stony slopes of southern Europe, the lone figure of the male Blue Rock Thrush Montkok solitarius (plates 39-40) is a handsome sight with blue-grey body and slaty-black wings and tail. In winter many feathers hare brownish fri...

Reorientation of passerine night migrants after displacement by the wind

01 July 1968 Comments Main paper Edwatd Grey Institute, Oxford Recent radar studies in north-east England (Evans 1966) have shown that, even at night, migrating passerines can compensate for wind drift. Thus they usually fly on chosen tracks rather than chosen headings. This finding cont...

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Studies of less familiar birds: 155. Little Stint

The Hastings Rarities again

Status and breeding success of Golden Eagles in north-west Sutherland in 1967

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Studies of less familiar birds:148. Blue Rock Thrush

Reorientation of passerine night migrants after displacement by the wind

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