News and comment

01 October 1965 Comments News and comment Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve.--The Nature Conservancy have purchased 1,216 acres of sand dunes between Ainsdale and Formby on the Lanca shire coast and the area has now been statutorily declared as the Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Re...
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Letters

01 October 1965 Comments Letters T h e w i n g pattern of the female Great Bustard Sirs,---In his recent article on 'Flight patterns of the European bus tards' (Brit. Birds, 58: 43-47), Philip J. Stead wrote with reference to the Great Bustard Otis tarda: 'The wing patterns of both sexes...
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Notes

01 October 1965 Comments Notes Turnstone feeding on dead sheep.--On ist March 1964,8 day of heavy mist, we were walking along the shore at Steart Point, Somer set, when we came across the carcase of a sheep. A Carrion Crow Corvus corone and two Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinttsfl...
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Letters

01 April 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. K. E. L. Simmons's letter (antea, p. 40) on this subject draws attention to reactions in trapped birds intermediate between remaining immobile on the open hand and the extreme, trance-like "death feigning". A further case may be of interest. On...
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Reviews

01 April 1951 Comments Reviews Notes on the Birds of Warwickshire by C. A. Norris. (Cornish Brothers Ltd., Birmingham, 1947). 8s. 6d. THE only previous account of the birds of this county was that published by R. F. Tomes in the Victoria History of Warwickshire in 1904. The present lit...
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Notes

01 April 1951 Comments Notes T H E following notes, made on a colony of Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) in a Cambridge street during March, 1949, have been prompted by Mr. C. M. Ogilvie's article on this subject (antea, pp. 1-5). This rookery, comprising only five pairs, was a new one, pr...
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