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01 October 1972 Comments Notes Great Blue Herons coming on board ships in mid-Atlantic In late November 1968 reports appeared in the Bristol press that a heron had arrived at Avonmouth on a British merchantman, M.V. Pkardy, and had been taken to Rode Tropical Bird Gardens at Frome, Som...

Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper In October 1962, while travelling from New York to Southampton in R.M.S. Mauretania, I was fortunate to witness a fall of over 130 American landbirds of 34 species (Durand 1963). This was the highlight of five years of voyaging across the North Atlantic i...

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...

Flight identification of European raptors

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Editorial: Field guides and identification

01 October 1972 Comments Editorials The recent publication of The Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East, by Hermann Heinzel, Richard Fitter and John Parslow (reviewed on pages 445-448), has met with a wide range of reactions, both favourable and unfavourable. Thi...

Recent reports—July

01 October 1972 Comments Recent Reports ...

Migrants through Malta and Gozo: October, 1941 to July, 1945

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper In Autumn 1941 and spring 1945, I had an opportunity of noting the comings and goings of migrants through the islands of Malta and Gozo. The vast majority of the birds seen were British birds, in so far as they are on the British List, and were passage...

Territory in the Ringed Plover

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper IN July, 1944, I had an opportunity of studying the territorial behaviour of Ringed Plover (Charadrius h. hiaticula), at Malahide, Co. Dublin, where large numbers nest in and around the tern colony. The conditions for observation were exceptionally fav...

Notes on the birds of Abberton Reservoir, Esses

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Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

Flight identification of European raptors

Editorial: Field guides and identification

Recent reports—July

Migrants through Malta and Gozo: October, 1941 to July, 1945

Territory in the Ringed Plover

Notes on the birds of Abberton Reservoir, Esses

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