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01 May 1965 Comments Notes Madeiran Little Shearwaters off Co. Donegal.--At 14.35 hours G M T on 22nd October 1964, from Malin Head, Co. Donegal, O.J.M. identified a Madeiran Little Shearwater Procellaria baroli baroli flying in a westerly direction. Ten minutes later it was follow...

Some Comments on the problems of separating Reed and Marsh Warblers

01 May 1965 Comments Main paper [ T H E FOUR LETTERS which follow form a kind of special symposium on the difficulties of distinguishing Marsh Warblers Acrocephalus palustris and Reed Warblers A. sdrpaceus by their songs and even in the hand. When we received the first from K. Atkin and...

More example of the best recent work by British bird photographers

01 May 1965 Comments Main paper (Plates 25-32) T H I S IS T H E SIXTH annual selection of the best contemporary work by British bird-photographers. The large number of excellent prints submitted has made the final choice particularly difficult. As before, however, other things being equ...

Shelduck broods in the Tay Estuary

01 May 1965 Comments Main paper I N T W O O F S E V E R A L earlier papers on the Shelduck Tadorna tadorna I commented briefly on the behaviour of broods and packs of young (Boase 1935, 1938). The present paper sums up in greater detail the results of continued observation at Kingoodie,...

Territory and food of the Song Thrush

01 May 1965 Comments Main paper A STUDY OF the Song Thrush Turdusphilomelos was carried out over three years (1954-56) in and around the Oxford Botanic Garden and in Marley Wood on the Wytham Estate about 3 miles from the centre of Oxford. To a large extent it ran parallel with a simult...

News and comment

01 May 1965 Comments News and comment Undiminished threat to birds of prey.--The Joint Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on Toxic Chemicals is still alarmed by the serious threat to several of Britain's birds of prey from sheep di...

Letters

01 May 1965 Comments Letters The first nesting of Spur-winged Plovers in Greece Sirs,--In his recent article on the Spur-winged Plover Hoplopterus spinosus {Brit. Birds, 58: 47-51), I. J. Ferguson-Lees stated that the breeding of this species in Europe as a whole and in Greece in par...

Reviews

01 May 1965 Comments Reviews Bir ds of Prey of the World. By Mary Louise Grossman and John Hamlet. Photographs by Shelly Grossman. Cassell, London, 1965. 496 pages; 70 colour and 283 monochrome photographs; numerous line drawings including 644 flight silhouettes and 422 range maps; c...

Review

01 March 1941 Comments Reviews Birds of the Grey Wind. By Edward A, Armstrong (Oxford University Press). Illustrated. 12s. 6d. net. THE title of this book and its unusual medley of poetry, history and legend may well hide the fact that also within its pages are to be found some excelle...

Notes

01 March 1941 Comments Notes As an example of how food-supply can affect the number of birds breeding in a locality the following may be of interest. When I first came to Benenden, Kent, about twenty years ago, so far as I know Hawfinches (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) never nes...

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Some Comments on the problems of separating Reed and Marsh Warblers

More example of the best recent work by British bird photographers

Shelduck broods in the Tay Estuary

Territory and food of the Song Thrush

News and comment

Letters

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