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Notes to the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper DURING THE SUMMER of 1956 we visited the north-east of Iceland for the purpose of studying and filming; the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon (Falco rusticolus islandus). The expedition was in the Myvatn area from 9th to 21st J u n e . W e wish to record...

Recent reports and news

01 August 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Reviews

01 August 1958 Comments Reviews By D. A. BANNERMAN. Illustrated by G. E. Lodge. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh), Vol. VI (I957)= 3 2 Â° pages; 26 colour plates. Vol. VII (1958): 256 pages; 27 colour plates. ^ 3 3s. each. THE SIXTH VOLUME describes the storks, herons, Flamingo, swans, ge...

Notes

01 August 1958 Comments Notes Eider's method of eating crabs.--On 16th December 1957 and subsequent days I had several first-winter Eiders (Somateria mollissima) under observation from the pier at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. They were seen diving from a range of a few yards and on returni...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCI. Bridled Tern

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper (Plates 45-48) T H E BRIDLED, Brown-winged or Panayan Tern (Sterna anaethetus), widely distributed in tropical and sub-tropical seas, has been recorded only three times in the British Isles. All were beach-drifted birds--one each at Dungeness, Kent, on 19...

Late season singing of the Yellowhammer

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper August showed that the birds were giving relatively large song totals. T h e maximum recorded from one bird w a s 3,482 songs in one day. Apart from August being a month when very few other species in Britain sing persistently, this can be regarded as ver...

Some notes on the Long-eared Owl

01 June 1941 Comments Main paper (Plate i.) does not appear to be a great deal of literature concerning the nocturnal habits of the Long-eared Owl (Asio o. otus), and, to a large extent, this can be understood as observations during the hours of darkness are difficult, and sometimes impo...

Notes

01 June 1941 Comments Notes IT appears from the Handbook of British Birds that no display other than the song-flight has been recorded for the Greenfinch (Chloris ch. Moris). On May 2nd, 1941, my attention was drawn to a shrubbery in Staffordshire frequented by Greenfinches by a no...

Obituary: George Henry Caton Haigh (1860-1941), Maud Doria Haviland (Mrs. H. H. Brindley) (1891-1941).

01 June 1941 Comments Obituaries who died on February n t h , 1941, at the age of eighty, will be best remembered by ornithologists for the persistent and diligent watch he kept for rare migrants at North Cotes in Lincolnshire. His success in this quest was due to his very thorough and ...

Report of the bird-ringing committee: Progress for 1940

01 June 1941 Comments Main paper THIS is the fourth annual report to be issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology.* It covers 1940, the third complete year of working under present arrangements. The series in this form continues the sequence of a...

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Notes to the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon

Recent reports and news

Reviews

Notes

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCI. Bridled Tern

Late season singing of the Yellowhammer

Some notes on the Long-eared Owl

Notes

Obituary: George Henry Caton Haigh (1860-1941), Maud Doria Haviland (Mrs. H. H. Brindley) (1891-1941).

Report of the bird-ringing committee: Progress for 1940

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