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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...

Notes

01 June 1946 Comments Notes WITH reference to Lt.-Col. B. H. Ryves's statement (antea, p. 43) that all species of buntings are absent in the Scillies, it may be of interest to record that my husband and I saw and heard several Corn-Buntings {Emberiza calandra) in song on St. Agnes,...

Studies of some Species rarely Photographed. V. The Three-toed Woodpecker

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper Photographed 6y H. N. SOUTHERN. (Plates 21-22). T H E Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) is one of the birds of Western Europe of which there is no good evidence t h a t it has occurred in the British Isles, though Donovan's History of British ...

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper THIS is the ninth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence by H. F. Witherby published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The Committee has been reconsti...

Birds of inner London

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper D U R I N G the year under review (1945), there has been one new record for Inner London, viz., t h e White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons), a flock of this species having been seen by Mrs. Rait Kerr crossing over Lords on February 17th. Mr. Holte Macpher...

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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

Notes

Studies of some Species rarely Photographed. V. The Three-toed Woodpecker

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

Birds of inner London

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