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Bird foods and feeding-habits as subjects for Amateur research

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper I N THE STRAIGHT-FORWARD, descriptive natural history of any species, the food which it eats is an obvious item. T h e century and a half of scientific ornithology which has followed The Natural History of Selborne has seen the compilation of qualitative ...

Notes on Nesting Nightjars

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper THE following observations were made in late June and early July 1952-56, round Westleton in Suffolk, where Nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) breed not uncommonly on sandy heaths similar to those where I studied the species fifty miles N . N . W . , round...

Letters

01 July 1957 Comments Letters T H E C O L L E C T I O N O F R E C O R D S F O R ANALYSIS S I R S , -- Y o u r correspondent, Mr. T. C. Smout, raises issues of fundamental importance (antea, vol. xlix, pp. 287-288). If a paper is put forward for publication in a scientific form and pur...

Reviews

01 July 1957 Comments Reviews By MICHAEL LISTER. (Phoenix House, London, 1956). 256 pages. 45s. IT IS curious that The Bird Watcher's Reference Book should have appeared at about the same time as The Ornithologists' Guide (see antea, vol. xlix, p p . 504-505). Both have developed ind...

Notes

01 July 1957 Comments Notes 1956, a female Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) wearing a British Museum ring (941642) was recaptured in the decoy a t Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. She was accompanied by four ducklings, estimated to be four or five days old. This female was marked at Slimbri...

Further aircraft Observations of birds in flight

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper T H I S PAPER sets out observations of birds seen from aircraft (see Table I), subsequent to those published in my previous paper (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 59-70). AH observations are based on the same limitations and criteria of identification, height and...

Letters

01 March 1952 Comments Letters SIRS,--We are hoping to collate information about visible migration over, and on the shores of, the Mediterranean. Very little has been published on the subject and no doubt a good many unpublished records, especially those made on voyages, are in existen...

Reviews

01 March 1952 Comments Reviews British Bird Boohs : An Index to British Ornithologv, A.D. 1481 to J.I). 1948. By Raymond Irwin (London, Grafton & Co., 1951. 63/-). The title of this book gives a very inadequate idea of its contents since it indexes and classifies, not only books, b u t...

Notes

01 March 1952 Comments Notes The Display of the Blackbird.--During observations on four pairs of Blackbirds (Turdus merula) in 1949, and on the same four pairs with the addition of another in 1950, the following display was noted. All of the birds concerned were recognizable in the ...

High speed photography as an aid to the identification of prey-II

01 March 1952 Comments Main paper IN a previous note (antea, vol. xlii, p. 358) we drew attention to the fact that high-speed flash photography of birds feeding young, frequently enables the prey to be identified because greater clarity is obtained when very short exposures are used. Duri...

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Bird foods and feeding-habits as subjects for Amateur research

Notes on Nesting Nightjars

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Further aircraft Observations of birds in flight

Letters

Reviews

Notes

High speed photography as an aid to the identification of prey-II

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