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01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

01 November 2004 Comments Main paper This is the forty-sixth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of accepted records of rare birds in Britain in 2003, with some additional, outstanding records from earlier years. On average, we process about 1,000 re...

Field-notes on some Asian Leaf-Warblers-I

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper ONLY three species of leaf-warblers or willow-warblers* (Phylloscopus) are common and regular visitors to Britain, but twelve forms, belonging to nine different species, have been recorded at one time or another. These, however, represent less than half t...

Do English Woodpigeons Migrate?

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper T H E object of this short paper is to draw attention to a curious problem in the hope that others will help in solving it. The observations here described, made independently by Lack round Oxford and by Ridpath in Kent and Sussex, cannot be satisfactoril...

Photographic studies of some less Familiar birds: LXV. Marmora's Warbler

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper (Plates 41-44) THOUGH the Dartford Warbler (Sylvia undata) is to be found on the islands of the western Mediterranean, it is there much outnumbered by its close relative, Marmora's Warbler (S. sarda), which has a very limited range from Tunis, Algeria, an...

Notes on the post-Juvenile Moult and first-winter plumage in the Pheasant

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper T H I S note has been prompted by a few inaccuracies which have persisted in The Handbook of British Birds on the post-juvenile moult and first-winter plumage of the Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus). Since its first edition in 1941, another six impressions ...

The passage of Black Terns Through Britain in Autumn 1954

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory) T H E unusual passage of Black Terns (Chlidonias niger) through the British Isles during the spring of 1954 has been discussed by Dickens (1955)- This was followed by an equally abnormal passage during the autumn. There appear...

Recent reports

01 July 1955 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the last fortnight of May and the first half of June, but it includes some observations from early May and to that extent overlaps with the previous one...

Reviews

01 July 1955 Comments Reviews Collins Guide.to Bird Watching. By R. S. R. Fitter. Collins, London, 1963. 254 pages; 112 black-and-white photographs; 49 line drawings by R. A. Richardson. 21s. This book is designed as a complementary volume to the same author's The Pocket Guide to Brit...

Studies of less familiar birds 123. Glaucous Gull

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper with the photographs and paper by Kay (1947) on the characters of the Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) in winter expressed the hope that pictures of adults on the breeding grounds would soon be available. In fact, however, those now published sixteen yea...

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