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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2002

01 November 2003 Comments Main paper This is the forty-fifth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of the records which have been assessed by BBRC for the year 2002, along with additional, outstanding records from previous years. To enhance the over... Read More

Reviews

01 February 1964 Comments Reviews A Study of Bird Song. By Edward A. Armstrong. Oxford University Press, London, 1963. x i v + 3 3 5 pages; 17 plates; 43 figures and 14 tables. 45 s. Far more work has been done on the vocal behaviour of birds than of all other animals combined. Much of it... Read More

Measurements and Weights Of Great Black-Backed Gulls

01 February 1964 Comments Main paper marine gulls and this short paper is intended t o give some idea of the size range and sex differences within a single population of Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinus. T h e individuals concerned were collected during a gull control programme on Skok... Read More

Observations on The St. Kilda Wren

01 February 1964 Comments Main paper hirtensis (plate 8b) has long excited the interest of naturalists. It was Martin (1698) who first mentioned Wrens on this lonely archipelago almost forty miles beyond the Outer Hebrides. The many subsequent accounts have been summarised by Armstrong (1953... Read More