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Recent Reports

01 November 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary deals mainly with August, a month in which strong westerly winds in the first week brought in a number of American waders. However, anticyclonic conditions thereafter prod... Read More

Notes

01 November 1973 Comments Notes Unusual behaviour of Black-necked Grebe From 6th to 15th October 1969, I daily observed a Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis in the harbour of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. When undisturbed by passing boats, it frequently dived and fed insid... Read More

Letters

01 May 1952 Comments Letters --The increasing use of various types of colour-marking for the field recognition of birds must lead to confusion between individual experiments unless an authoritative central register can be compiled. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the British Tru... Read More

Obituary: Cecil Robert Vesey Stoney (1878-1952)

01 May 1952 Comments Obituaries STONEY, who died on February igth, 1952, in the Isle of Man, was one of the finest field ornithologists ever produced by Ireland. Stoney was a scholar of Shrewsbury and of Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in classics. After t... Read More