Recent reports

01 October 1955
Comments News and comment [These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] This summary is mainly concerned with the period from 21st July to 10th September. Highlights included a heavy passage of northern waders, a striking movement of Black Terns, the now annual ...
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News and comment

01 October 1955
Comments News and comment Annual Conference.--The Annual Conference of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club will be held at the Hotel Dunblane (formerly Dunblane Hydro Hotel), Perthshire, from 25 th to 27th October. Guest speakers will be Dr. Kai CurryLindahl, from Stockholm, on 'Bi...
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Request for information

01 October 1955
Comments Editorials Status and distribution of the Chough.--There ate indications that the Chough {Pyrrbocorax pyrrhocorax) has been increasing during the last decade in Wales and the Isle of Man, but in the absence of any systematic survey there is no definite evidence. The...
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Reviews

01 November 1947
Comments Reviews British Game. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. (The New Naturalist series, Collins, London, 1946). Price 16s. This is the first of the New Naturalist series to be concerned primarily with birds. I t is not exclusively so concerned because mammals are also inclu...
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Notes

01 November 1947
Comments Notes ON a fine morning in April, 1946, a number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula), Song-Thrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) and Starlings (Siurnus v. vulgaris) were watched while feeding on a large lawn of King's College, Cambridge. The Starlings spent most of the...
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The Growth of a young Cuckoo

01 November 1947
Comments Main paper A SERIES of observations was made in June, 1946, upon the growth of a young Cuckoo (Cuculus c. canorus) in the nest of a HedgeSparrow (Prunella modularis occidentalis) near Oxford. The nest was in one of the dividing privet hedges of the back gardens of a...
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