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Post-fledging behaviour of Choughs on Bardsey Island

01 June 1962 Comments Main paper T H E C H O U G H S {Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) of Bardsey Island, off the coast of Caernarvonshire, have been a constant source of interest since the bird observatory opened there in 1953. O n e or two pairs have nested in most years and forty-seven young ...

Robin recaptures on Fair Isle

01 June 1962 Comments Main paper O N F A I R ISLE, Shetland, it is the normal practice to weigh all migrant birds at the time they are first trapped, and at any subsequent recaptures. The information is stored in a card-index, with all the data for each individual on a single card. In th...

Albinism and melanism in birds

01 June 1962 Comments Main paper T H E STUDY OF heterochtosis or colour variations in the plumage of birds is a subject that the majority of field ornithologists either ignore entirely or regard with only mild curiosity. In the early years of the present century and before that, however,...

Letters

01 June 1962 Comments Letters Black-headed Gtills eating acorns Sirs,--With reference to earlier notes on the subject of Black-headed Gulls (Lams ridibundus) eating acorns (Brit. Birds, 50: 75 and 347; 54: 118 and 130-131), I should like to point out that the late Humphrey Swann recor...

Notes

01 June 1962 Comments Notes Red-legged Partridge paddling in the sea.--On 24th March 1962, at Hunstanton, Norfolk, I saw a Red-legged Partridge {Alectoris rufa) standing in the shallow waves of the incoming tide about 250 yards below high water mark. It was a warm, dry afternoon and...

Notes

01 April 1943 Comments Notes MARTINSON of Foresters Lodge, Wolsingham, in the Wear valley, rcports that from January ioth to 28th, 1943, he had under Observation five Two-barred Crossbills (Loxia l. bifasciala). Flocks of the Common Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) have been present...

Bird Notes from Lincolnshire, 1934-1942

01 April 1943 Comments Main paper THE following records from Lincolnshire over the past nine years it is hoped may provide some interest in that as the period concerned is of some length, some idea of the frequency of the occurrences of some of the species mentioned may be furnished. Ther...

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

01 April 1943 Comments Main paper THIS is the sixth report* issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence of reports by H. F. Witherby published from 1910 onwards under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme." Ac...

The index of Heron Population, 1942

01 April 1943 Comments Main paper THE number of heronries concerning which reports for 1942 have been received at the Edward Grey Institute was only 90, of which only 2 were in Scotland, only 4 in Wales and none in south-east England. Major A. W. Boyd again collected statistics for nearly...

Obituary - the late Col. H. W. Feilden, C.B.

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Post-fledging behaviour of Choughs on Bardsey Island

Robin recaptures on Fair Isle

Albinism and melanism in birds

Letters

Notes

Notes

Bird Notes from Lincolnshire, 1934-1942

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

The index of Heron Population, 1942

Obituary - the late Col. H. W. Feilden, C.B.

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