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01 July 1959 Comments Letters B L A C K B I R D S F E E D I N G ON M A R I N E W O R M S S I R S , -- I can confirm the note by Mr. Roger Harkness (antea, p. 97) on Blackbirds (Turdus merula) feeding on marine worms, strangely enough from the same part of Hampshire--at Hill Head, whic...

Notes

01 July 1959 Comments Notes Duration of dives of Black-throated Diver.--In Sutherland on -25th May 1955 we were able to make continuous observations for nearly four hours on the diving of a Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica). T h e site was a loch half a mile wide and seven miles ...

Visible migration in N.E. Norfolk in November 1956

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper IN THE LATE AUTUMN of 1956 my wife and I watched for visible migration near Cromer in north-east Norfolk on thirteen days during the period 31st October-i5th November. Our actual observation point was the cliff top at East Runton which is about two miles ...

An historic series of Cuckoo photographs

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper (Plates 43-44) IN 1918 the late E d g a r P . Chance began making an intensive study of the habits of a female Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) on Arley Common, Worcestershire, and in the autumn of 1921 he offered to the film trade a cine-film with the title " T ...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: XCLX. Alpine Swift

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper T H E ALPINE S W I F T (Apus melba) is paler and considerably larger than its more wide-spread cousin, the Common Swift [A. apus). It is brown instead of black, and has a white belly separated from a white throat by a brown breast-band (plate 38 upper). O...

Migration of the Oystercatcher

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper ONE OF THE tentative conclusions reached in E. J. M. Buxton's paper on this subject (antea, vol. L, pp. 519-526) was that mature Oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) "do not move so far away from their breeding area as immature birds". This conclusion c...

Wader migration in North America and its relation to transatlantic crossings

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper IT IS NOW generally accepted that the American waders which occur each autumn in western Europe have crossed the Atlantic unaided, in many (if not most) cases without stopping on the way. Yet we are far from being able to answer all the questions which ar...

Notes

01 March 1943 Comments Notes WITH reference to Mr. J. M. B. Brown's remarks on the breeding of the Pied Flycatcher in the Forest of Dean (antea, p. 179), it may be of interest to note that In 1935 I was informed by Mr. R. Hendrie, a student at the School of Forestry, Parkend, that h...

The age of Some More British Birds

01 March 1943 Comments Main paper paper is a sequel to that on the Blackbird (Turdus m. merula) (Lack, 1943a), and the latter should be read first as the remarks on treatment of material and general principles apply equally to the present paper, but are not repeated. It should be stressed...

Birds of Inner London

01 March 1943 Comments Main paper CARMICHAEL LOW DURING the period under review (1942) there have been two new records for Inner London, viz. the Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides) and the Waxwing (BombycÃ¼la g. garrulus). Of other interesting occurrences the invasion of the City by Black...

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Letters

Notes

Visible migration in N.E. Norfolk in November 1956

An historic series of Cuckoo photographs

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: XCLX. Alpine Swift

Migration of the Oystercatcher

Wader migration in North America and its relation to transatlantic crossings

Notes

The age of Some More British Birds

Birds of Inner London

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