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01 June 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgement alone, from sources generallyfound to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Notes

01 June 1960 Comments Notes Piracy by GadwalL--On 30th December 1959, near Cley, Norfolk, we watched four Gadwall (Anas strepera) worrying a drake Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina), apparently with the aim of robbing it of its food. They followed it very closely and whenever it div...

Some notes on the Rufous Warbler

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper T H I S P A P E R is based primarily on observations made from May to October 1958 at Khanaqin in eastern Iraq, a border town on the banks of the Alwand River in the foothills of the Jebel Hamrin Mountains, about 90 miles north-east of Baghdad. When I arr...

The distribution and numbers of Kittiwakes and Guillemots at St. Kilda

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper T H E R E A R E several reasons why no attempt has previously been made to describe in detail the distribution and numbers of the Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) and the Guillemot (Uria aalge) at St. Kilda. The colonies are extremely difficult of access, bei...

Juvenile and winter plumages of the Marsh terns

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper Migration Research Officer, B.T.O. (Plate 36) I D E N T I F I C A T I O N of the three British marsh terns (Chlidonias spp.) outside the breeding season has long constituted a problem for the bird-watcher. There is a cautionary note in The Handbook of Bri...

Lesser Short-toed Larks in Cos. Kerry, Wexford and Mayo : a bird new to Britain and Ireland

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper A H I G H L Y I N T E R E S T I N G a n d fully a c c e p t e d a d d i t i o n t o t h e list of t h e b i r d s of Britain a n d I r e l a n d t h a t has n o t yet received full n o t i c e in this j o u r n a l is t h e Lesser S h o r t - t o e d L a ...

The use of mobile observers in the study of Patterns of migration

01 May 1951 Comments Main paper of the observation work on the migration of the Swift (Apus apus) dor e in the years 1947-50 has been carried out at fixed vantage points. In general, this method has resulted in the acquisition of useful statistical data, but inherent in it are several p...

The movements of Swifts in summer

01 May 1951 Comments Main paper 1950 was a good year for studying the movements of Swifts (Apus apus). Well over 20,000 were reported during the special watch held under the auspices of the British Trust for Ornithology. This covered the arrival period prior to May 15th, 1950. Another 2...

Editorial

01 May 1951 Comments Editorials As announced in British Birds for March a new editorial board, whose members are named on the title-page, becomes responsible for the conduct of the magazine beginning with this issue. It is intended to maintain broadly the existing traditions, standards...

Letters

01 May 1951 Comments Letters SIRS,--A serious error has crept into t h e obituary notice of m y old friend Bernard Tucker. To quote : " The memorable Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen " took place in 1921 n o t 1922, and Tucker was n o t one of t h e members. I n 1922 F . C...

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