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01 March 1961 Comments Reviews Atlas of European Birds. By K. H . Voous. N e l s o n , London, i960. 284 pages; 419 maps and 355 photographs. 70s. One of the post-war developments in ornithology has been the attention given to bird distribution. There has been a growing realisation of ...

Notes

01 March 1961 Comments Notes Beetles in the plumage of birds.--On 25 th May 1959 I picked up a freshly dead Swift (Apus apus) on the sloping concrete bank of Hilfield Park Reservoir, Hertfordshire. On examining the bird I discovered a single beetle of the species Haltka ohracearighti...

A survey of moulting Shelduck on Knechtsand

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper sand-banks which lies 8.1 nautical miles from the German mainland between Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven. It extends from 8Â°i8'E to 8Â°29'i5"E and from 5 3 V ' i 8 " N to 5 3Â°46'i5"N. Robins Balje is a natural boundary on the south-west side, while the ...

Warbler fluctuations in Oak Woodland in the Severn Valley

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper T w o P R E V I O U S P A P E R S of mine in British Birds (1935, 1950) gave population statistics for the Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) and four species of warbler--Willow Warbler (Pbylloscopus trnchilus), Chiffchaff (PL collybitd), Garden Warbler ...

The contamination of birds with pollen and other substances

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper A s A RESULTof an appeal in a paper by Ash (195 9), further specimens of polleniferous contaminants, some containing other substances, were removed from the heads of migrant birds in i960. The most notable contribution was made by P.H.J, in the Camargue, ...

REPORT ON THE "BRITISH BIRDS" CENSUS OF HERONRIES, 1928 PART II

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LETTERS: THE DIVING-HABITS OF THE LONG-TAILED DUCK; THE DIVING OF SCOTERS

01 December 1929 Comments ...

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Report on the " British Birds" Census of Heronries, 1928. Part II

01 May 1929 Comments Main paper A CONSIDERABLE amount of information was sent in regarding the relations between man and the Heron. These prove to vary most strikingly in different parts of the country, or even of single counties. Taking the breeding-season first, our data make it clea...

Letters

01 May 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--We are inclined t o think t h a t Mr. Charles E . AHord in his letter re the. above (antes, p . 331) is perhaps n o t altogether correct when he remarks t h a t the conditions under which we made observations " must be considered rather artificial,...

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A survey of moulting Shelduck on Knechtsand

Warbler fluctuations in Oak Woodland in the Severn Valley

The contamination of birds with pollen and other substances

REPORT ON THE "BRITISH BIRDS" CENSUS OF HERONRIES, 1928 PART II

LETTERS: THE DIVING-HABITS OF THE LONG-TAILED DUCK; THE DIVING OF SCOTERS

NOTES

Report on the " British Birds" Census of Heronries, 1928. Part II

Letters

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