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01 November 1964 Comments News and comment Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve.--The ancient name Lindisfame has been officially revived by the Nature Conservancy in its declaration of the first part of a new reserve on the Northumberland coast. This includes the sand-dunes on Holy Island, togethe...

Reviews

01 November 1964 Comments Reviews T h e World of Birds. By James Fisher and Roger Tory Peterson. 288 pages, including 90 with colour lithograph plates of nearly 700 species, more than 200 maps and many half-tone illustrations. Macdonald, London, 1964. 5 gns. Contrary to some expectations,...

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01 November 1964 Comments Notes Manx Shearwater as prey of Peregrine in central Scotland.--On 12th June 1964, near Cairngorm, Inverness-shire, I discovered the remains of an adult Manx Shearwater Procellaria puffinus in the eyrie of a pair of Peregrines Falco peregrinus. The body had be...

Studies of less familiar birds 130. White-tailed Eagle

01 November 1964 Comments Main paper Pandion haliaetus as a breeding species in Scotland, there has been a certain amount of speculation on the possibilities of the return of the White-tailed Eagle Haliaetus albicilla to one of its ancestral haunts. From being at one time commoner than t h e...

The influence of radio waves upon bird

01 November 1964 Comments Main paper The seasonal migration of birds of many species is an established fact, but the means whereby they are able to navigate over the vast distances involved remains a largely unsolved problem which has been reviewed in detail by Matthews (1955) and Dorst (196...

Letters

01 November 1964 Comments Letters SIRS,--It would be interesting to know if the reports published in the popular Press earlier this year stating that large numbers of Rooks were making daily incursions to the Romney Marshes from the French coast, have ever been verified by a competent orn...

Reviews

01 March 1938 Comments Reviews Report on the Birds of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and S. Staffordshire, 1936. Prepared under the direction of the Birmingham Bird Club. is. 6d. (H. G. Alexander, 144, Oak Tree Lane, Birmingham, 29.) T H I S , t h e third annual, Report is an advance on...

Notes

01 March 1938 Comments Notes I HAVE paid particular attention to the singing of Crossbills (Loxia c. curvirostra) for some years, on and off, and I find that the song can be divided into four main varieties. In attempting to describe these songs below, I use the two sound descriptio...

Recovery of marked birds

01 March 1938 Comments Main paper Longtown (Cumb), 1.3.33, b y Stamford Bridge W. Bell. 27.12.37.25.11.36. 5.1.37. 26.12.36. 30.11.36. 13.12.36. 26.10.35. 27.11.36. 30.12.36. 9.11.36. 14.12.35. 14.12.36. 28.12.35. 28.11.36. 19.11.37. 18.11.35. 19.11.36. 10.12.36. 27.12.35. 13.12.35. 24.9...

The breeding behaviour of Temminck's Stint

01 March 1938 Comments Main paper (Plate 12.) IN view of the recent attempt of Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii) to breed in Scotland (antea Vol. XXVIII, p. 97) and of the general paucity of information in regard to the breeding biology of this species, some notes which the authors ...

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Studies of less familiar birds 130. White-tailed Eagle

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