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01 April 1976 Comments News and comment ...

Notes

01 April 1976 Comments Notes A further note on the wing-spreading of Black Storks In a recent note (Brit. Birds, 67: 236-237) M. D. England gave details of an unusual aspect of the feeding behaviour of some Black Storks Ciconia nigra in north-east Portugal. He described ho...

Waders water and mud

01 April 1976 Comments Main paper We have received a superb collection of black-and-white photo graphs of waders washing, walking, running, feeding and flying, taken by Brian and Sheila Bottomley, mostly in Cornwall. Eight are reproduced here and we hope in due course to publish furthe...

Owls killing and killed by other owls and raptors in Europe

01 April 1976 Comments Main paper It is well known that owls (Strigiformes) and diurnal raptors (Falconiformes) sometimes prey on one another, but the records have been scattered through the literature. Arising out of a study of the prey of certain owls, particularly Great Grey, Ural, ...

Ruddy Ducks in Britain

01 April 1976 Comments Main paper The Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis is one of five introduced birds (three waterfowl and two pheasants) that were admitted to the British and Irish list in 1971, when it was accepted that they had succeeded in establishing self-maintaining feral populati...

Identification of European treecreepers

01 April 1976 Comments Main paper Although its arrival as a British bird was widely announced in January 1972, the Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla was not admitted to the British and Irish list until 1975, on the basis of a vagrant trapped at Dungeness on 27th Septemb...

November and December reports

01 April 1976 Comments News and comment We received a report of a Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps which arrived at Carlingwark Loch, Castle Douglas (Dumfries & Galloway), in November and was still present in January, though unfortunately no further details are available. Three Manx...

Request for information

01 February 1962 Comments Editorials Cold weather migrations.--The British Trust for Ornithology and "British Birds are analysing the unusually impressive cold -weather migrations of the week following 28th December 1961. All records of movements, arrivals and departures at this period are o...

Letters

01 February 1962 Comments Letters What is a British bird ? Sirs,--The recent note and subsequent correspondence on the occurrence of a White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albkollis) in Hampshire {Brit. Birds, 54: 366-367 and 439-440) prompts once more the question: what is a British bird?...

Reviews

01 February 1962 Comments Reviews D o w n the L o n g Wind (A Study of Bird Migration). By Garth Christian. N e w n e s , London, 1961. 240 pages; 31 plates; 23 maps. 21s. Few branches of ornithology have made more rapid strides than the study of migration and every year now sees the publ...

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