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01 June 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgement alone, from sources generallyfound to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Notes

01 June 1960 Comments Notes Piracy by GadwalL--On 30th December 1959, near Cley, Norfolk, we watched four Gadwall (Anas strepera) worrying a drake Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina), apparently with the aim of robbing it of its food. They followed it very closely and whenever it div...

Some notes on the Rufous Warbler

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper T H I S P A P E R is based primarily on observations made from May to October 1958 at Khanaqin in eastern Iraq, a border town on the banks of the Alwand River in the foothills of the Jebel Hamrin Mountains, about 90 miles north-east of Baghdad. When I arr...

The distribution and numbers of Kittiwakes and Guillemots at St. Kilda

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper T H E R E A R E several reasons why no attempt has previously been made to describe in detail the distribution and numbers of the Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) and the Guillemot (Uria aalge) at St. Kilda. The colonies are extremely difficult of access, bei...

Juvenile and winter plumages of the Marsh terns

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper Migration Research Officer, B.T.O. (Plate 36) I D E N T I F I C A T I O N of the three British marsh terns (Chlidonias spp.) outside the breeding season has long constituted a problem for the bird-watcher. There is a cautionary note in The Handbook of Bri...

Lesser Short-toed Larks in Cos. Kerry, Wexford and Mayo : a bird new to Britain and Ireland

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper A H I G H L Y I N T E R E S T I N G a n d fully a c c e p t e d a d d i t i o n t o t h e list of t h e b i r d s of Britain a n d I r e l a n d t h a t has n o t yet received full n o t i c e in this j o u r n a l is t h e Lesser S h o r t - t o e d L a ...

Notes

01 April 1943 Comments Notes MARTINSON of Foresters Lodge, Wolsingham, in the Wear valley, rcports that from January ioth to 28th, 1943, he had under Observation five Two-barred Crossbills (Loxia l. bifasciala). Flocks of the Common Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) have been present...

Bird Notes from Lincolnshire, 1934-1942

01 April 1943 Comments Main paper THE following records from Lincolnshire over the past nine years it is hoped may provide some interest in that as the period concerned is of some length, some idea of the frequency of the occurrences of some of the species mentioned may be furnished. Ther...

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

01 April 1943 Comments Main paper THIS is the sixth report* issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence of reports by H. F. Witherby published from 1910 onwards under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme." Ac...

The index of Heron Population, 1942

01 April 1943 Comments Main paper THE number of heronries concerning which reports for 1942 have been received at the Edward Grey Institute was only 90, of which only 2 were in Scotland, only 4 in Wales and none in south-east England. Major A. W. Boyd again collected statistics for nearly...

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Recent reports and news

Notes

Some notes on the Rufous Warbler

The distribution and numbers of Kittiwakes and Guillemots at St. Kilda

Juvenile and winter plumages of the Marsh terns

Lesser Short-toed Larks in Cos. Kerry, Wexford and Mayo : a bird new to Britain and Ireland

Notes

Bird Notes from Lincolnshire, 1934-1942

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

The index of Heron Population, 1942

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