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Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper THROUGH the kindness of Mr. M. C. Harman, the owner, and by permission of the Admiralty the writers were able to spend from July 2nd to loth, 1942, on Lundy. The primary object was to investigate the status of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus p. puffinus),'...

Reviews

01 February 1945 Comments Reviews The Breeding Distribution, History and Population of the North Atlantic Gannet (Sola bassana). By James Fisher and H. G. Vevcrs. Part I.--A History of the G a n n e t s Colonies, and t h e Census in 1939. Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. xii, pp. 173-213, ...

Notes

01 December 1944 Comments Notes I HAVE previously (antea, Vol. xxxiii, p. 265) given examples from the Robin (Erithacus rubecula) and the Blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix) of a male attempting to disturb the coition of another pair. Similar behaviour is characteristic of geese and swans, as n...

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

01 October 1944 Comments Main paper STONE-CURLEW (Burhinus ce. cedicnemus). In second half of 19th century became extinct in Cotswolds (Gloucestershire and N.W. Oxfordshire) and in E. Midlands (Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire). Has decreased elsewhere (almost extin...

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

01 August 1944 Comments Main paper IN view of the present interest in animal fluctuations, a survey has been "made of every bird breeding in the British Isles, to see what proportion of the species have increased, decreased or remained at about the same level during the last one, hundred y...

Reviews

01 June 1944 Comments Reviews Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire ' and Buckinghamshire, 1942. Edited by B . W. Tucker (University Museum, Oxford). T H I S report, which shows how well t h e society maintains its activity, contains as us...

Notes

01 December 1942 Comments Notes a short visit to Lundy in September, 1942, we identified a Lapland Bunting {Cakarius lapponicus) on the high barren area at the north end of the island on September ioth. The species has not previously been met with on Lundy, nor in the county of Devon. ...

Notes

01 August 1936 Comments Notes A NEST of a Carrion-Crow (Corvus c. corone) in a willow tree in Walland Marsh, Kent, had a clutch of eggs which was taken on April 12th, 1936. On May 17th, the nest contained another clutch of eggs which were exactly like the first. The nest did not appe...

Notes

01 February 1935 Comments Notes FOR the last few years I have examined a number of Jays killed in Essex, in the hope of finding the Continental form. On November 22nd, 1934, one, a female, was shot at Longwood, Layer Marney, Essex, which had the lower mantle and back greyer than usual....

Letters

01 October 1934 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. R. L. Brown, in his interesting notes on the Kingfisher (antea, p. 83), reports a pair of birds having a clutch several days incubated when they had at the same time a brood in an adjacent nest. The experience especially interested me because t...

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Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

Reviews

Notes

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

Reviews

Notes

Notes

Notes

Letters

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