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01 July 1962 Comments Reviews Photographing Garden Birds. By C. H. S. Tupholme. Faber, London, 1962. 127 pages; 4 colour and 6 monochrome photographs. 18s. Some excellent suggestions are given on methods of attracting wild birds into the garden by establishing various trees, shrubs an...

Notes

01 July 1962 Comments Notes Water Rail killing Little Stint and Eel.--With reference to the recent notes on Water Rails (Rallus aquaticus) killing a Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) and other small Passerines {Brit. Birds, 55: 132-133 and 165), I should like to record that on 4th Sept...

Irish Golden Eagles and a link with Scotland

01 July 1962 Comments Main paper of the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in northern Britain (see, for example, Nicholson 1957). Among the likely factors are the wartime respite from persecution, which probably resulted in a "post-war bulge" of surplus immatures, and the major shift in a...

An Ornithological sketch of the Barycz Valley in Poland

01 July 1962 Comments Main paper in western Poland, has long been famous for its birds. It is one of the few places in central Europe where such rare species as White-tailed Eagle, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Kite, Grey Lag Goose, Crane, Black Stork, Purple Heron* and others are concentrated i...

Feeding behaviour of the Turnstone in Arctic Canada

01 July 1962 Comments Main paper In 1955 we spent six months on northern Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, conducting field studies to obtain information for the National Museum of Canada on the breeding cycles of birds in the far north. The principal area of investigation was Fos...

Letters

01 March 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,--In Vol. xl, p. 245, you say t h a t the taking of food from the water b y Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) has apparently not been "previously recorded in our ornithological literature." I have recently had occasion t o search t h e literature for ...

Reviews

01 March 1948 Comments Reviews Ornithological Record for Derbyshire, 1946. Compiled b y W. K. Marshall. This publication gives evidence of considerable activity among Derbyshire bird-observers, and includes many interesting notes. To the "complete list of birds recorded in t h e count...

Notes

01 March 1948 Comments Notes ON July 19th, 1947, whilst cycling near Heytesbury, Wiltshire, I heard some Magpies (P. p. pica) chattering, as though alarmed, in a hawthorn not far from the road. I turned and was just in time to see a Carrion Crow (Corvus c. corone) strike a Magpie to...

The distinguishing characters of the Steppe-Buzzard

01 March 1948 Comments Main paper THE eastern race of the Buzzard, known as the Steppe-Buzzard, Buieo buteo vulpinus Gloger, which breeds as far west in Europe as North Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria, has been shown to occur as a bird of passage (and more rarely ...

Winter feeding hours of Robins, Blackbirds and Blue Tits

01 March 1948 Comments Main paper IT IS a matter of common knowledge that birds do not spend the whole of their waking hours looking for food, even during the short days of mid-winter. Gulls and waders, for instance, may be seen standing in flocks, inactive for hours on end. The watcher k...

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Irish Golden Eagles and a link with Scotland

An Ornithological sketch of the Barycz Valley in Poland

Feeding behaviour of the Turnstone in Arctic Canada

Letters

Reviews

Notes

The distinguishing characters of the Steppe-Buzzard

Winter feeding hours of Robins, Blackbirds and Blue Tits

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