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News and comment

01 November 1965 Comments News and comment More news of contamination by toxic chemicals.--The Fifth Report of the Joint Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on Toxic Chemicals, published in September, shows that in the chemical analysis ...

Requests for information

01 November 1965 Comments Editorials Irruption of Waxwings.--Waxwings Bombycilk garrulus began to appear on the east coast of Britain about 14th October 1965, and on the 17th there were 30 on Fair Isle (Shetland). On the 19th 300 were seen at Holkham (Norfolk) and between then and the end of...

Letters

01 November 1965 Comments Letters The problems of separating Reed and Marsh Warblers Sirs,--Having read with considerable interest the recent letters on the problems of separating Reed Warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus and Marsh Warblers A. palustris (Brit. Birds, 58: 181-188), I hope that...

Reviews

01 November 1965 Comments Reviews The Broads. ByE. A. Ellis. Collins, London, 1965. 401 pages; 47 monochrome photographs and 68 maps and diagrams. 36s. This long-awaited guide to the natural history of the Norfolk broads is most impressive. Edward Ellis's writing is always colourful and h...

Palearctic birds

01 November 1965 Comments Main paper The Birds of the Palearctic Fauna: a Systematic Reference (Non-Passeriformes). By Charles Vaurie. Witherby, London» 1965. x x i i + 7 6 4 pages. £ 7 7s. A L T H O U G H T H E P A L E A R C T I C unites such seemingly diverse areas as Britain, the M...

Studies of less familiar birds: 137. Woodchat Shrike

01 November 1965 Comments Main paper Laniussenatorhas a rather limited distribu tion in western Europe, north-west Africa, Asia Minor and the Near East. Its strongholds in Europe are Iberia, France, Italy, the Mediter ranean islands and some parts of the western Balkans down to northern Gree...

Yellow Warbler on Bardsey Island: a bird new to Great Britain and Ireland

01 November 1965 Comments Main paper of 29th August 1964, at approximately 15.30 hours GMT, my newly arrived assistant H. Miles was conveying his belongings from the boathouse to the observatory on Bardsey Island, Caernarvonshire. Halfway between the boathouse and Ty Pellaf, bis attention wa...

Observations on the breeding biology of the Razorbill

01 November 1965 Comments Main paper T H E B R E E D I N G B I O L O G Y of the Razorbill Alca torda has been little studied. Even the incubation and fledging periods were only in accurately known until the work of Keighley and Lockley (1947 and 1948). However, Paludan (1947) gave a good gen...

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...

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