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01 August 1959 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' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Notes

01 August 1959 Comments Notes Display flight of Bitterns.--On 18th May 1959, at midday, I saw three Bitterns (Botaurus stellaris) rise from a re,ed-bed near Walberswick, Suffolk, and mount in a fresh N . E . breeze to a height which I estimated to be 600 or 700 feet. Not much wingflap...

Watching migration by radar

01 August 1959 Comments Main paper So FAR AS I know, the first time that radar echoes were definitely identified as coming from birds was in the spring of 1940, when an experimental equipment on a wavelength of 50 cm. at Christchurch, Hampshire, detected gulls (Larus spp.) (Shire, 1958). U...

The spread of the Eider in Great Britain

01 August 1959 Comments Main paper range of the Eider (Somateria mollissima) in the southern half of Great Britain since the Second W o r l d W a r , and also to describe the increasing number of birds which are recorded in summer along the same parts of the coast even though they are far ...

Editorial: Records of rare birds

01 August 1959 Comments Editorials DURING the past year or more there has been a growing realization that a large number of birds formerly thought to be rarities are reaching the British Isles regularly, and even in some numbers. In some cases a change of habit or expansion of breeding dis...

Requests for Information

01 June 1952 Comments Editorials 224 REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION. (i) A number of readers have already reported unusually early arrivals of summer migrants in 1952, especially in March. As a general rule we have regarded records of this sort as being the province of local reports, but such ...

Notes

01 June 1952 Comments Notes 13th, 1951, Campbell Ballantyne told G. E. Wooldridge of two warblers that he had been watching that morning. Although obviously warblers their identity was puzzling. He gave a fairly full description of the birds seen, the most striking feature being, "v...

Mid-season movements of Swifts in Sussex

01 June 1952 Comments Main paper IN his article, " T h e Movements of Swifts in S u m m e r " (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 146-152), H. G. Hurrell states that " t h e r e is evidence which suggests the possibility of an influx from the Continent about the end of J u n e " . My own observations...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XL. The Snow-Bunting

01 June 1952 Comments Main paper (Plates 45-51). As a winter visitor the Snow-Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) is mainly a coastal bird. As a rule it occurs in some numbers on the north and east coasts, but in most years smaller numbers are also seen in the west and south-west, so that it...

The breeding behaviour of the Swift

01 June 1952 Comments Main paper ...

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Recent reports and News

Notes

Watching migration by radar

The spread of the Eider in Great Britain

Editorial: Records of rare birds

Requests for Information

Notes

Mid-season movements of Swifts in Sussex

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XL. The Snow-Bunting

The breeding behaviour of the Swift

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