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01 February 1951 Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory Reports, 1940--'46, 1947, 1948, 1949. (t940-'46 out of print; others obtainable from Col. H. Allen, D.S.O., M.B.E., The Red House, Heywood Lane, Tenby, price 2/6). These four reports cover a long and chequered period of Skokholm...

Notes

01 February 1951 Comments Notes ...

The effect of a snow-storm on breeding birds

01 February 1951 Comments Main paper THE purpose of this paper is to summarize the effect of the severe snow-storm of April 26th, 1950, on a number of breeding birds, whose nests were under daily observation at the Imperial College Field Station, Silwood Park, Sunninghill, Berkshire, in conn...

Notes on the breeding habits of the Swift

01 February 1951 Comments Main paper DURING the years 1944-1949 some 250 visits were made to the tower of S S . Philip and James Church, Ilfracombe, Devon, in order to study the breeding habits of the Swift (Apus apus). These visits were made at hours ranging from 6.00 to 24.00, B.S.T. The n...

Obituary: Bernard William Tucker (1901-1950)

01 February 1951 Comments Obituaries IT is not much over ten years since Harry Witherby called Bernard Tucker to assist him with the editing' of this Magazine after the death of F . C. R. Jourdain, and it is little more than seven years since, on Harry Witherby's own death, the editorial res...

REPORT ON THE "BRITISH BIRDS" CENSUS OF HERONRIES, 1928 PART II

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LETTERS: THE DIVING-HABITS OF THE LONG-TAILED DUCK; THE DIVING OF SCOTERS

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Report on the " British Birds" Census of Heronries, 1928. Part II

01 May 1929 Comments Main paper A CONSIDERABLE amount of information was sent in regarding the relations between man and the Heron. These prove to vary most strikingly in different parts of the country, or even of single counties. Taking the breeding-season first, our data make it clea...

Letters

01 May 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--We are inclined t o think t h a t Mr. Charles E . AHord in his letter re the. above (antes, p . 331) is perhaps n o t altogether correct when he remarks t h a t the conditions under which we made observations " must be considered rather artificial,...

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The effect of a snow-storm on breeding birds

Notes on the breeding habits of the Swift

Obituary: Bernard William Tucker (1901-1950)

REPORT ON THE "BRITISH BIRDS" CENSUS OF HERONRIES, 1928 PART II

LETTERS: THE DIVING-HABITS OF THE LONG-TAILED DUCK; THE DIVING OF SCOTERS

NOTES

Report on the " British Birds" Census of Heronries, 1928. Part II

Letters

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