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Some radar measurements of the alitiude of bird flight

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

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01 October 1965 Comments News and comment Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve.--The Nature Conservancy have purchased 1,216 acres of sand dunes between Ainsdale and Formby on the Lanca shire coast and the area has now been statutorily declared as the Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Re...

Letters

01 October 1965 Comments Letters T h e w i n g pattern of the female Great Bustard Sirs,---In his recent article on 'Flight patterns of the European bus tards' (Brit. Birds, 58: 43-47), Philip J. Stead wrote with reference to the Great Bustard Otis tarda: 'The wing patterns of both sexes...

Notes

01 October 1965 Comments Notes Turnstone feeding on dead sheep.--On ist March 1964,8 day of heavy mist, we were walking along the shore at Steart Point, Somer set, when we came across the carcase of a sheep. A Carrion Crow Corvus corone and two Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinttsfl...

Studies of less familiar birds: 136. Red-breasted Flycatcher

01 October 1965 Comments Main paper central Europe through Russia and right across Siberia and northern Mongolia to Anadyr, Kamchatka and probably Sakhalin Island, with isolated populations in the Caucasus and northern Iran, and in the western Himalayas (Dementiev.and Gladkov 1954, Vaurie 1...

Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters on Skokholm

01 October 1965 Comments Main paper I N V A R I O U S P A P E R S , Dane, Miles and Stoker (1948-5 3) havedescribed a virus disease, puffinosis, which causes epizootics (animal epidemics) among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria (=T?uÃŸnH$) puffinus on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, I n the past...

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...

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Some radar measurements of the alitiude of bird flight

News and comment

Letters

Notes

Studies of less familiar birds: 136. Red-breasted Flycatcher

Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters on Skokholm

Requests for Information

Notes

Mid-season movements of Swifts in Sussex

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

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