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01 May 1971 Comments Letters Feather wear in Guillemots In view of R. J. Kennedy's note on feather wear in Guillemots Uria aalge (Brit. Birds, 63: 34-36) and the follow-up in this issue (pages 229-230), I should like to point out that a good many of the auks involved in the disaster ...

Notes

01 May 1971 Comments Notes Display-flight of Sparrowhawks I was interested in the note by R. A. Hume and P. L. Garvey on the possible display-flight of four Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus on 25th January 1970 (Brit Birds, 63: 132). The unusual features were the number involved and th...

Obituary - James Maxwell McConnell Fisher, MA (1912-1970)

01 May 1971 Comments Main paper James Fisher lost his life in a motor accident at Hendon on 25 th September 1970. Born on 3rd September 1912, he had just passed his 5 8th birthday and, if a man can reasonably look forward to the traditional three score and ten, he was denied at least a ...

Studies of less familiar birds 165: Serin

01 May 1971 Comments Main paper Plates 29-34 Compared with its well-known relative, the Canary Serinus canaria, of the Canary Islands, Azores and Madeira, the Serin S. serinus is smaller and not so brightly coloured. In many ways it bears more resemblance to the Siskin Carduelis spinus ...

Observations on a resident population of Stonechats in Jersey

01 May 1971 Comments Main paper Between 1950 and 1970 I studied a population of Stonechats Saxicola torquata in the area of St Ouen's Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands. In the course of this, nearly 1,000 individuals of all ages were ringed and, between 1951 and 1965, 660 of them were also c...

Recent reports

01 May 1971 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The last summary (Brit, Birds, 64: 135-136) covered the rarer species and most of the unseasonal summer visitors in December 1970 and January 1971. This one deals with the remaining reports in...

News and Comment

01 May 1971 Comments News and comment Birds of Estuaries Enquiry This joint project of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was outlined in 'News and comment' last year (Brit. Birds, 63: 183). The first report of the pilot survey, covering the p...

Recent reports

01 January 1968 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is basically concerned with the month of November, but also includes a few relevant records from early December and some belated observations relating to the July-October period...

News and comments

01 January 1968 Comments News and comment N e w Protection of Birds Act.---The Protection of Birds Act 1967, which comes into force this month, contains a number of provisions that will affect many keen field-ornithologists and bird-photographers in England, Scotland and Wales. Any person wishing...

Letters

01 January 1968 Comments Letters Little or White-rumped Swift ? Sirs,---The interesting article by I. J. Ferguson-Lees on Apus affinis {Brit. Birds, 60: 286-290) prompts me to raise two points. The first is the choice of the vernacular name 'White-rumped Swift' in preference to that of '...

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Obituary - James Maxwell McConnell Fisher, MA (1912-1970)

Studies of less familiar birds 165: Serin

Observations on a resident population of Stonechats in Jersey

Recent reports

News and Comment

Recent reports

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