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01 March 1970 Comments Notes Somersaulting behaviour of Canada Geese On ist February 1970 we were members of a party of more than 20 people who witnessed an extraordinary performance by about 200 Canada Geese Branta canadensis which we had watched coming down on Ellesmere, Shropshire...

The first ten years of the Rarities Committee

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper This survey is concerned with the efforts of the editors of this journal, and of the Rarities Committee set up by them in 1959s to collect, investigate, judge and publish annually in one document the essential details of all the rarer vagrants seen in Bri...

More examples of the best recent work by British-photographers

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper Plates 16-23 This is the eleventh annual selection of the best contemporary work by British bird-photographers. Six of the species and three of the photographers are new to the series which has therefore now included 150 photographs of 104 species by 59 p...

Effect of 'Hamilton Trader' oil on birds in the Irish Sea in May 1969

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper Just before dawn on 30th April 1969 the tanker Hamilton Trader was damaged in a collision with a German coaster near the Bar light vessel in Liverpool Bay. About 700 tons of heavy fuel oil were spilled into the sea. This incident provided an opportunity t...

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01 January 1932 Comments Notes SOME Waxwings (Bombycilla ^arrulus) have reached Norfolk during the last few weeks. On November 3rd, 1931, one was picked up alive at Kelling, under telegraph wires, by the local police constable, but it died and was unfortunately taken by a cat. Some wi...

The birds of Lundy Island from 1922 to 1931, with special reference to Numerical Fluctuation

01 January 1932 Comments Main paper IN early June, 1930, V, C. Wynne-Edwards, J, H. Comyns and the writer visited Lundy, an island of rather over a thousand acres, lying twelve miles out in the Bristol Channel. Our primary objective was to take a bird census of the whole island,* but we wer...

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The first ten years of the Rarities Committee

More examples of the best recent work by British-photographers

Effect of 'Hamilton Trader' oil on birds in the Irish Sea in May 1969

Article PDF - V26_N08_P253-259_N035.pdf

Article PDF - V26_N08_P260-260_RV037.pdf

Article PDF - V26_N08_P238-245_A033.pdf

Article PDF - V26_N08_P246-252_A034.pdf

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The birds of Lundy Island from 1922 to 1931, with special reference to Numerical Fluctuation

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