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Post-fledging behaviour of Choughs on Bardsey Island

01 June 1962 Comments Main paper T H E C H O U G H S {Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) of Bardsey Island, off the coast of Caernarvonshire, have been a constant source of interest since the bird observatory opened there in 1953. O n e or two pairs have nested in most years and forty-seven young ...

Robin recaptures on Fair Isle

01 June 1962 Comments Main paper O N F A I R ISLE, Shetland, it is the normal practice to weigh all migrant birds at the time they are first trapped, and at any subsequent recaptures. The information is stored in a card-index, with all the data for each individual on a single card. In th...

Albinism and melanism in birds

01 June 1962 Comments Main paper T H E STUDY OF heterochtosis or colour variations in the plumage of birds is a subject that the majority of field ornithologists either ignore entirely or regard with only mild curiosity. In the early years of the present century and before that, however,...

Letters

01 June 1962 Comments Letters Black-headed Gtills eating acorns Sirs,--With reference to earlier notes on the subject of Black-headed Gulls (Lams ridibundus) eating acorns (Brit. Birds, 50: 75 and 347; 54: 118 and 130-131), I should like to point out that the late Humphrey Swann recor...

Notes

01 June 1962 Comments Notes Red-legged Partridge paddling in the sea.--On 24th March 1962, at Hunstanton, Norfolk, I saw a Red-legged Partridge {Alectoris rufa) standing in the shallow waves of the incoming tide about 250 yards below high water mark. It was a warm, dry afternoon and...

Letters

01 September 1950 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n their paper on this subject in British Birds, vol. xlii, p. 325, David and Elizabeth Lack write t h a t Dr. D. A. Bannerman in his note on Chaffinch Migration in .British Birds, vol. xxxvii, p . 177, supposed t h a t the birds he saw in N...

Reviews

01 September 1950 Comments Reviews Report of the Natural History Section of the Wiltshire Archcsological &· Natural History Society, 1947 and 1948. Some of the interesting records in these two carefully compiled reports have already appeared in British Birds : a Roller reported (antea, v...

Notes

01 September 1950 Comments Notes WITH regard to the swimming of small passerines (antea, vol. xl, pp. 179, vol. xlii, p. 183, vol. xliii, p. 121), the following incidents may be of interest. At the Eye Brook Reservoir, Leicestershire, a colony of Tree-Sparrows (Passer montanus) uses the...

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

01 September 1950 Comments Main paper The recoveries of Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus), Common Gull (Larus canus), and Teal (Anas crecca) from Dutch decoys, are too numerous to be included. To the list of Ringing Stations already published*, one not previou...

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain in 1949

01 September 1950 Comments Main paper THE Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) has now firmly established itself as a summer resident in England. In 1949 at least twenty-seven pairs spent the summer at fifteen localities in eight counties ; eighteen pairs are known to have bred and at lea...

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Post-fledging behaviour of Choughs on Bardsey Island

Robin recaptures on Fair Isle

Albinism and melanism in birds

Letters

Notes

Letters

Reviews

Notes

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain in 1949

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