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01 July 1959 Comments Letters B L A C K B I R D S F E E D I N G ON M A R I N E W O R M S S I R S , -- I can confirm the note by Mr. Roger Harkness (antea, p. 97) on Blackbirds (Turdus merula) feeding on marine worms, strangely enough from the same part of Hampshire--at Hill Head, whic...

Notes

01 July 1959 Comments Notes Duration of dives of Black-throated Diver.--In Sutherland on -25th May 1955 we were able to make continuous observations for nearly four hours on the diving of a Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica). T h e site was a loch half a mile wide and seven miles ...

Visible migration in N.E. Norfolk in November 1956

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper IN THE LATE AUTUMN of 1956 my wife and I watched for visible migration near Cromer in north-east Norfolk on thirteen days during the period 31st October-i5th November. Our actual observation point was the cliff top at East Runton which is about two miles ...

An historic series of Cuckoo photographs

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper (Plates 43-44) IN 1918 the late E d g a r P . Chance began making an intensive study of the habits of a female Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) on Arley Common, Worcestershire, and in the autumn of 1921 he offered to the film trade a cine-film with the title " T ...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: XCLX. Alpine Swift

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper T H E ALPINE S W I F T (Apus melba) is paler and considerably larger than its more wide-spread cousin, the Common Swift [A. apus). It is brown instead of black, and has a white belly separated from a white throat by a brown breast-band (plate 38 upper). O...

Migration of the Oystercatcher

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper ONE OF THE tentative conclusions reached in E. J. M. Buxton's paper on this subject (antea, vol. L, pp. 519-526) was that mature Oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) "do not move so far away from their breeding area as immature birds". This conclusion c...

Wader migration in North America and its relation to transatlantic crossings

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper IT IS NOW generally accepted that the American waders which occur each autumn in western Europe have crossed the Atlantic unaided, in many (if not most) cases without stopping on the way. Yet we are far from being able to answer all the questions which ar...

Reviews

01 April 1956 Comments Reviews with field assistance by GEORGE EDWARDS. (Faber and Faber, London, 1955). 128 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 18s. Birds Fighting is one of the first bird books to be illustrated mainly with electronic flash photographs. A number of them have already appeared in t...

Notes

01 April 1956 Comments Notes Purple Heron in Surrey.--On 18th September 1955 I disturbed a juvenile Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) in a patch of rather close-growing reeds at the south end of Frensham Little Pond, six miles N . W . of Haslemere, Surrey. First seen indistinctly in the ...

Special Review

01 April 1956 Comments Reviews and 1955). 162 pages and 24 p l a t e s ; 235 pages and 24 plates. Each 10s. T H E activities of the W r ildfowl Trust have expanded enormously since its inception in 1946. T h e contents of the First Annual Report, reviewed in this journal in 1948, consi...

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Letters

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Visible migration in N.E. Norfolk in November 1956

An historic series of Cuckoo photographs

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: XCLX. Alpine Swift

Migration of the Oystercatcher

Wader migration in North America and its relation to transatlantic crossings

Reviews

Notes

Special Review

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