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The behaviour of adult tits towards other birds and mammals near the nest

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01 March 1970 Comments Notes Somersaulting behaviour of Canada Geese On ist February 1970 we were members of a party of more than 20 people who witnessed an extraordinary performance by about 200 Canada Geese Branta canadensis which we had watched coming down on Ellesmere, Shropshire...

The first ten years of the Rarities Committee

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper This survey is concerned with the efforts of the editors of this journal, and of the Rarities Committee set up by them in 1959s to collect, investigate, judge and publish annually in one document the essential details of all the rarer vagrants seen in Bri...

More examples of the best recent work by British-photographers

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper Plates 16-23 This is the eleventh annual selection of the best contemporary work by British bird-photographers. Six of the species and three of the photographers are new to the series which has therefore now included 150 photographs of 104 species by 59 p...

Effect of 'Hamilton Trader' oil on birds in the Irish Sea in May 1969

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper Just before dawn on 30th April 1969 the tanker Hamilton Trader was damaged in a collision with a German coaster near the Bar light vessel in Liverpool Bay. About 700 tons of heavy fuel oil were spilled into the sea. This incident provided an opportunity t...

Letters

01 October 1958 Comments Letters EGGS D I S A P P E A R I N G F R O M P E R E G R I N E E Y R I E S S I R S , -- T h e paper by D r . D . A. Ratcliffe on " B r o k e n eggs in Peregrine eyries" (antea, pp. 23-29) has greatly interested me, as it seems to throw considerable light on past ...

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01 October 1958 Comments Notes Killdeer in Cornwall.--On 26th December 1957, a bird was accidently shot during a snipe shoot in a small marsh on the edge of Trembleath W o o d , St. Columb Major, near Newquay, Cornwall. It was sent to the British Museum (Natural History) where it was f...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCII. Little Shearwater

01 October 1958 Comments Main paper Photographs and text by John W a r h a m (Plates 64-67) The Little, Allied or Dusky Shearwater (Procellaria baroli = Puffinus assimilis) is a small black and white shearwater whose oceanic distribution lies mainly in cold water south of the Equator. The b...

Population and breeding environment of the St. Kilda and Fair Isle Wrens

01 October 1958 Comments Main paper T H E FIRST WRITER to mention the existence of a W r e n (Troglodytes troglodytes) on St. Kilda, over a hundred miles west of the Scottish mainland and half that distance from the Outer Hebrides, was Martin (1698); but it was left to Macaulay (1764) to po...

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Recent reports

The behaviour of adult tits towards other birds and mammals near the nest

Notes

The first ten years of the Rarities Committee

More examples of the best recent work by British-photographers

Effect of 'Hamilton Trader' oil on birds in the Irish Sea in May 1969

Letters

Notes

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCII. Little Shearwater

Population and breeding environment of the St. Kilda and Fair Isle Wrens

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