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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Recent reports

01 November 1955 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is mainly concerned with the thirty days from n t h September to ioth October, but it brings in some earlier reports received too late for inclusion in the previous one {Brit. B...
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News and Comment

01 November 1955 Comments News and comment Conference of European Ringing Centres.--A Conference of European Ringing Centres was held in Paris in October to discuss plans for the orientation of ringing towards certain selected species, the advisability of controlling or abandoning ringing of speci...
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Letters

01 November 1955 Comments Letters Colour-marked and leucistic Barnacle Geese Sirs,--I should be most grateful if anyone w h o sees Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) in north-west Scotland, the Hebrides or Ireland during the next two winters would look for individuals wearing North America...
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Reviews

01 November 1955 Comments Reviews The H o u s e Sparrow. By D . Summers-Smith. Collins, London, 1963. x v i + 2 6 9 p a g e s ; one colour and 32 black-and-white photographs; 36 text-figures. 25 s. The distinguished reputation of the New Naturalist series is greatly enhanced by this lates...
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Notes

01 November 1955 Comments Notes Pheasant nesting 35 feet above ground in same tree as Sparrowhawk.--On 6th May 1963, in company with Adam Gains, we flushed a hen Pheasant (Phasianus cokbicus) from the old nest of a Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) which had been built the previous year abo...
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