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The moult migration of Shelducks from Bridgwater Bay

01 April 1966 Comments Main paper (1953) established that Bridgwater Bay in Somerset is used as a moulting ground by Shelducks Tadorna tadorna. However, later studies by Eltringham and Boyd (i960, 1963) showed that only a small proportion of the July concentration of Shelducks remains to ...

Passerine night migrants on Skokholm

01 April 1966 Comments Main paper T H E F I R S T British bird observatory was founded in 1933, when R. M. Lockley made a small Heligoland-type trap in his garden on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Lockley and Russell 1953); a big Heligoland trap was built some two hundred yards from it two year...

Reviews

01 April 1966 Comments Reviews Bird Migration: the Biology and Physics of Orientation Behaviour. By Donald R. Griffin. Science Study Series, N o . 32. Heinemann, London, 1965. x v + 1 8 0 pages; 27 text-figures. 12s. 6d. (paperback 8s. 6d.). The author's interests are clearly better re...

Notes

01 April 1966 Comments Notes Weasel killing Kestrel.--I was interested in Mrs. Sybil Selwyn's observation of a Kestrel Falco tinnunculus which caught a Weasel Mustek nivalis and carried it up into the air, but then let it go {Brit. Birds, 59: 39). On Z7th December 1930 I was watching...

Studies of less familiar birds. 139. Black Stork

01 April 1966 Comments Main paper F O R MANY YEARS N O W both European storks have been declining. The White Stork Ciconia ciconia, though protected by strong sentiment in many countries and often nesting close to man on houses, churches and ruins (plate 26), has suffered a marked decreas...

News and comment

01 April 1966 Comments News and comment An ornithological atlas ?---The possibilities of undertaking an ornithological atlas of the British Isles, along the lines of the Botanical Society of the British Isles's Atlas of the British Flora, are at present being explored by the British Trust for O...

Letters

01 April 1966 Comments Letters The spread of potato-eating i n Whooper Swans Sirs,--A tendency for flocks of up to 40 Whooper Swans Cygnus cygnus to feed inland is well attested in early European literature; and in Scotland these swans, like geese, occasionally fly some miles from wate...

Letters

01 September 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Vosges mountains in France during the first World War earthenware pots especially designed for sparrows to nest in were to be seen on the walls of a great many farms and I have no doubt the practice still persists. These served a double purp...

Reviews

01 September 1953 Comments Reviews Rare and Extinct Birds of Britain. By Ralph Whitlock. (Phcenix House, London, 1953). 21s. I t is open to question whether a satisfactory book can be written on the subject of our rare and extinct birds. To contribute anything original to knowledge in this...

Notes

01 September 1953 Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...

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The moult migration of Shelducks from Bridgwater Bay

Passerine night migrants on Skokholm

Reviews

Notes

Studies of less familiar birds. 139. Black Stork

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Letters

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Notes

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