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01 September 1947 Comments Notes ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking some...

Report of the bird-ringing committee

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper THIS is the tenth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The composition of the Committee remains the same...

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper the co-operation of 64 observers, it has been possible to provide evidence of the breeding of at least ten pairs of Black Redstarts (Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) in England in 1946. A further 13 pairs or singing males occupied territories, but wi...

Notes on Welsh Choughs

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper As THE Chough (Pyrrhocorax p. pyrrhocorax) is one of our lesserknown species, the following observations might be of interest as furnishing corroboration of the excellent account of this species given in The Handbook. The notes are the result of observati...

Some cases of abnormal flight of birds

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper instances of abnormal flight in birds, which I have observed, open up an interesting subject for speculation. The collection of further data may throw light upon the reasons. Probably in many cases the effect of air currents, pockets and lifts may be assu...

Letter

01 July 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,---The statement (antea, p. 58) of Fr. Haverschmidt t h a t " I t seems that field observations are inadequate on this point, at least in Great Britain " is an injustice to British ornithology and ornithologists. As far back as 1896 there is evidence...

Notes

01 July 1946 Comments Notes Ox February 22nd, 1946, I received word from David Reid that a pair of Ravens {Corvus c. corax) were building a nest in a small Ayrshire heronry. I visited the site two days later and the nest, which could be distinguished from the Herons' by the presenc...

Report of the Black Redstart inquiry for 1945

01 July 1946 Comments Main paper THIS is the second annual interim Report of the Black Redstart Inquiry, and deals with the breeding status of the Black Redstart {Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) in the British Isles in 1945, together with certain breeding records for former years t...

The index of the Heron Population, 1945

01 July 1946 Comments Main paper THE number of reports on sites occupied by Herons in 1945, which were received at the Edward Grey Institute, was 137, or 26 more than in the previous year. This increase was mainly clue to the co-opcration of those taking part in rookery censuses, a numbe...

The food of the Wigeon and Brent Goose

01 July 1946 Comments Main paper The following report on the food of the Wigeon (Anas penelope) and Brent Goose (Branta bernicla) forms part of an inquiry into the food of British wildfowl, which I had been carrying out for some years before the outbreak of War. Since August 1939 no work...

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Notes

Report of the bird-ringing committee

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

Notes on Welsh Choughs

Some cases of abnormal flight of birds

Letter

Notes

Report of the Black Redstart inquiry for 1945

The index of the Heron Population, 1945

The food of the Wigeon and Brent Goose

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