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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,...

Notes

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 April 1941 Comments Reviews Lundy : Isle of Puffins. By Richard Perry. (Lindsay Drummond.) With 37 photographs by Alan Richardson. 12s. 6d. net. T H I S book is the result of observation during the five summer months of 1939 which Mr. Perry spent on Lundy, off the N. Devon coast. It...

Notes

01 April 1941 Comments Notes THE recoveries of ringed Redwings (Turdus musicus), though still few, are of sufficient interest to bring together in a separate note. No recovery of a ringed Redwing was reported until early in 1938, although up to that time 576 had been marked. Then tw...

Obituary: Claud Buchanan Ticehurst (1881-1941)

01 April 1941 Comments Obituaries CLAUD BUCHANAN TICEHURST (1881-1941) W E deeply regret to announce the death of Dr. Claud Buchanan Ticehurst, of Saxon House, Appledore, Kent, on February 17th, 1941, after a short illness. He was the third son of August Rowland Ticehurst, V.D., J.P., M....

Birds of Inner London

01 April 1941 Comments Main paper THESE notes for 1940 are unavoidably incomplete owing to many observers being occupied in National Service. Moreover, toward the end of the year the field of observation was much restricted for various reasons. During 1940 there was one addition to the li...

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Studies of less familiar birds 130. White-tailed Eagle

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Obituary: Claud Buchanan Ticehurst (1881-1941)

Birds of Inner London

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