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Studies of less familiar birds. 144. Thick-billed Warbler

01 June 1967 Comments Main paper 1955 a bird with some resemblance to a Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus was captured on Fair Isle, Shetland, and proved to be a Thick-billed Warbler Phragmaticola aedon*, a vagrant from south-east Asia not previously found in Europe (William*T...

Swifts in sea-breeze fronts

01 June 1967 Comments Main paper G L I D E R P I L O T S often find themselves sharing rising currents of air with birds, sometimes to considerable heights. A source of upcurrents which has been found and used more extensively in recent years is the rising air at the sea-breeze front. Tw...

Reviews

01 June 1967 Comments Reviews Animal Navigation. By R. M. Lockley. Pan Books, London, 1967. 205 pages; 25 text-figures. 6s. Ornithologists are apt to think of animal navigation as being about the spectacular homing journeys of birds. In this book the author interprets the term very br...

Notes

01 June 1967 Comments Notes Barn Owl perching on man.--On 14th December 1966, at 3 p.m., I was digging a ditch on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' reserve at Leighton Moss, Lancashire, when I saw a Barn Owl Tjto alba hunting along the hedgerow. It soon dropped on to a ...

Territory, behaviour and breeding of the Dipper in Banffshire

01 June 1967 Comments Main paper September 1959 and December 1964 27 adult and 38 nestling Dippers Cinclus cinclus were colour-ringed on the River Isla in Banffshire to investigate their behaviour and movements. Work on this species by Balat (1962, 1964) in Czechoslovakia and on the Amer...

News and comment

01 June 1967 Comments News and comment launches major appeal fund.--With an eye set firmly on a target of £100,000, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has now launched what must surely be the most ambitious appeal fund ever made by- a voluntary natural history body in this co...

Letters

01 June 1967 Comments Letters Little Ringed Plovers in Britain during 1963-67 Sirs,--My last report on the increase and spread of the Litde Ringed Plover Cbaradrius dubius in Britain covered the years 1960-62 (Brit. Birds, 57: 191-198), although some information up to 1965 has been gi...

Letters

01 August 1953 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I was most interested to read the account by J. D. Macdonald of t h e recovery of an albatross in Derbyshire (antea, pp. I I O - I I I ) and to see the accompanying photograph (plate 13), because in m y opinion the bird was a Yellow-nosed Alb...

Notices and Requests for Information

01 August 1953 Comments Editorials Unusual passage of Firecrests.--It is evident t h a t a quite unusual number of Firecrests (Regulus ignicapillus) passed through the south and south-east of Britain, particularly in the region of the coast, during the late autumn of 1952 and the spring of...

Review

01 August 1953 Comments Reviews The Birds of Lancashire. By Clifford Oakes. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1953). 21s. od. One cannot fail to be impressed by the wealth of information which is presented here, and the care with which it has evidently been sifted. Local distribution, of cours...

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Studies of less familiar birds. 144. Thick-billed Warbler

Swifts in sea-breeze fronts

Reviews

Notes

Territory, behaviour and breeding of the Dipper in Banffshire

News and comment

Letters

Letters

Notices and Requests for Information

Review

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