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Some notes on the Crested Lark

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper the summer of 1940 until May 1945 we were in various prison camps scattered over Germany and Poland. For most of the time two of us were together. In 1946 one of us was for a short time again in Germany. Crested Larks (Galerida c. cristata) were seen wher...

Letters

01 June 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Royal Naval Bird-Watching Society has now been in existence for just over a year. I t has some t w o hundred and sixty members drawn from the ranks of t h e Royal Navy, Royal Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Navies. These observers range fr...

Notes

01 June 1948 Comments Notes As a member of the local fire brigade I was able to make some close observations on the behaviour of birds at a big oil-tank fire at Pembroke Dock in August and September, 1940. The fire blazed for many days and gave rise to intense heat and an immense c...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XIV. The Spotted Redshank

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper Photographed by OLOF SWANBERG AND ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN. (Plates 17-21). THE present photographs of the Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythrofus) are the first of a long series of remarkable photographs of Scandinavian breeding birds--most of them species occurr...

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper Ringed. Recovered. Rossitten, East Prussia, Newport Pagnell released Konigsberg 10.5.39 (Bucks.) 6.1.40 D51168 Rossitten 14.4.34 Sarratt (Herts.) 8.3.42 SCANDINAVIAN JACKDAW (Corvus m. monedula). Ringed. Recovered. U3240 Alvsborg, Sweden, young 5.6.39 Rad...

Report on the Inland passage of Arctic and Common Tern in the Spring of 1947

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper IN the spring of 1947 there occurred an exceptional inland passage of Arctic (Sterna macrura) and Common Terns (S. h. hirundo) in England and Wales, concerning which a preliminary notice was published in June in British Birds (antea, Vol. xl, p. 189). The...

Review

01 August 1939 Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory. Report for 1938. As this interesting report shows, Mr, R. M. Lockley is gradually building up at Skokholm a bird observatory which is doing valuable work. A large number of people visited the island during t h e year and helped ...

Notes

01 August 1939 Comments Notes EASILY the outstanding ornithological event in Sussex for the year 1939 was the accomplished breeding, for the first time since about 1895, of a pair of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in a sea-cliff some miles removed from the one in which, in 1938, (?) anothe...

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

01 August 1939 Comments Obituaries (1879-1939-) ornithology has suffered a severe loss in the death of the Rev. E. U. Savage on June 23rd, 1939, at the age of sixty. Since ill health forced him to retire two years ago, he had lived at Staveley, Westmorland, and before that he held livings...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

01 August 1939 Comments Main paper LEACH, HITHERTO in this series of articles we have thought it best to collect together all records of ringed birds, which have moved either from this country to abroad or from abroad to this country. This has meant a certain amount of duplication as the ...

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Some notes on the Crested Lark

Letters

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XIV. The Spotted Redshank

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

Report on the Inland passage of Arctic and Common Tern in the Spring of 1947

Review

Notes

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

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