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01 May 1969 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary is concerned mainly with March 1969 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. This period included several interesting rarities, among them some notable America...

News and comment

01 May 1969 Comments News and comment Bird Room for Tring ? In 193 9 the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) considered moving the Bird Room to the former Rothschild Museum at Tring, the latter having been bequeathed to the nation in 1937, but the advent of the Second World War l...

Letters

01 May 1969 Comments Letters The Irish record of Bulwer's Petrel To avoid misinterpretation of the editorial note appended to the letter from Dr J. T, R. Sharrock on the subject of the Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii seen by J. R, H. Clements off Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, on 26t...

Notes

01 May 1969 Comments Notes Woodpigeons cooing at night J. N . Tomlinson's note and the accompanying editorial comment (Brit. Birds, 62: 76-77) give the impression that it is exceptional for Woodpigeons Columba palumbus to call at night. In the past 28 years, however, living in thre...

The impaling of prey by shrikes

01 May 1969 Comments Main paper There still appears to be some uncertainty concerning the function of larders' of shrikes (Laniidae). These collections of impaled prey can conveniently be considered under two largely separate headings: (i) the use of the spike; and (2) the use of the la...

More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

01 May 1969 Comments Main paper Plates 29-} 6 This is the tenth annual selection of the best contemporary work by British bird-photographers. Since the series was started in May i960, it has included 126 photographs of 98 species by no less than 56 different people. This year a prelimin...

Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67

01 May 1969 Comments Main paper In 1963 the Rarities Committee announced that it could no longer consider certain species of which more than ten individuals were being recorded annually, these being Red-crested Pochard Neita rufina, Snow Goose Anser caerulescens, Pectoral Sandpiper Cali...

Notes

01 April 1946 Comments Notes IN the autumn of 1945 I have noticed Jackdaws (Corvus monedula spermologus) frequenting two holes in different beeches close together, at Westerham, Kent, but have been unable to prove definitely that they were breeding. A Jackdaw was seen to leave one h...

Notes on the food of the Kestrel

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper THE following information has been gathered as the result of analyses of 206 pellets of the Kestrel (Fako t. timmnculus) collected at regular intervals between July 1st, 1944, and March 24th, 1945, from a roost in an old shed and are believed, from feathe...

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. III. The Cirl Bunting

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 15-16). THIS local species (Emberiza cirlus) is one of the comparatively small number of birds regularly breeding in the British Isles which may still fairly be classed in the present category. Some earlier observers concluded that only the femal...

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Recent reports

News and comment

Letters

Notes

The impaling of prey by shrikes

More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67

Notes

Notes on the food of the Kestrel

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. III. The Cirl Bunting

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