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01 May 1962 Comments Editorials Wreck of Fulmars in February and March 1962.--Unusual numbers of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) were noted close inshore on various parts of the east coast during February, In some areas a high proportion were of dark or intermediate phases. During the next...

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01 May 1962 Comments Letters Ringed birds in snow Sirs,--During the snowy period of early January 1962, in my garden sanctuary near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, I saw two ringed birds, a Blue Tit (Pants caerukus) and a Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus), with their rings thickly coated ...

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01 May 1962 Comments Reviews Deaths of birds and mammals from toxic chemicals, January-June 1961. T h e second report of the Joint Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on T o x i c Chemicals, i n collaboration with the Game ...

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01 May 1962 Comments Notes Wilson's Phalarope in Cornwall.--Early on the morning of 15 th June 1961 J.E.B. came across an unfamiliar medium-sized wader with plain brown upper-parts and a dull white rump and tail, on Marazion Marsh, Cornwall. He contacted Dr. G. Allsop and between t...

Obituary: Alfred Hazelwood (1913-1961)

01 May 1962 Comments Obituaries A L F R E D H A Z E L W O O D died on 7th December 1961 at Bradshaw, near Bolton, Lancashire. He had returned home on Z3rd November after spending five weeks at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, where his condition had been found to be inoperable. Born at D...

Mortality and weights of Fieldfares in Anglesey in January 1962

01 May 1962 Comments Main paper F I E L D F A R E S (Tarduspilaris) are regular winter visitors to Anglesey as a whole, and in mid-October 1961 large numbers of these and other thrushes arrived in the county. Sightings of Fieldfares on Newborough Warren National Nature Reserve and in th...

Recent changes in the habits of the Kittiwake

01 May 1962 Comments Main paper K I T T I W A K E S (Rissa iridactyla) are relatively specialised gulls; not only are they adapted to nesting on small rock ledges on precipitous cliff faces (see Cullen 1957), but they are probably the most oceanic of the gulls outside the breeding seaso...

Slender-billed Gull in Sussex: a bird new to Britain

01 May 1962 Comments Main paper On 19th June 1960, at the sewage outlet in the sea off Langney Point, Sussex, I saw among Black-headed Gulls (Larus ridibundus) an immature gull of about the same size as these but with a markedly longer bill. On this occasion the bird ...

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01 September 1961 Comments Reviews The Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh. By H . Albert Hochbaum. Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, U.S.A., 1959 (second edition). 207 pages; 18 photographs. $4.50. Originally published towards the end of the 1939-45 war, this was the first of a series of authorita...

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01 September 1961 Comments Notes Manx Shearwater d i g g i n g by daylight.--At about 2.30 p.m. on 15th May 1961, I was walking in bright sunlight on a sloping cliff on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, when I heard a Manx Shearwater (Procellaria puffinus) calling from its burrow. Kneeling down w...

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Obituary: Alfred Hazelwood (1913-1961)

Mortality and weights of Fieldfares in Anglesey in January 1962

Recent changes in the habits of the Kittiwake

Slender-billed Gull in Sussex: a bird new to Britain

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