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01 October 1972 Comments Notes Great Blue Herons coming on board ships in mid-Atlantic In late November 1968 reports appeared in the Bristol press that a heron had arrived at Avonmouth on a British merchantman, M.V. Pkardy, and had been taken to Rode Tropical Bird Gardens at Frome, Som...

Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper In October 1962, while travelling from New York to Southampton in R.M.S. Mauretania, I was fortunate to witness a fall of over 130 American landbirds of 34 species (Durand 1963). This was the highlight of five years of voyaging across the North Atlantic i...

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper ...

Editorial: Field guides and identification

01 October 1972 Comments Editorials The recent publication of The Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East, by Hermann Heinzel, Richard Fitter and John Parslow (reviewed on pages 445-448), has met with a wide range of reactions, both favourable and unfavourable. Thi...

Recent reports—July

01 October 1972 Comments Recent Reports ...

Field-notes on some Asian Leaf-Warblers-I

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper ONLY three species of leaf-warblers or willow-warblers* (Phylloscopus) are common and regular visitors to Britain, but twelve forms, belonging to nine different species, have been recorded at one time or another. These, however, represent less than half t...

Do English Woodpigeons Migrate?

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper T H E object of this short paper is to draw attention to a curious problem in the hope that others will help in solving it. The observations here described, made independently by Lack round Oxford and by Ridpath in Kent and Sussex, cannot be satisfactoril...

Photographic studies of some less Familiar birds: LXV. Marmora's Warbler

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper (Plates 41-44) THOUGH the Dartford Warbler (Sylvia undata) is to be found on the islands of the western Mediterranean, it is there much outnumbered by its close relative, Marmora's Warbler (S. sarda), which has a very limited range from Tunis, Algeria, an...

Notes on the post-Juvenile Moult and first-winter plumage in the Pheasant

01 July 1955 Comments Main paper T H I S note has been prompted by a few inaccuracies which have persisted in The Handbook of British Birds on the post-juvenile moult and first-winter plumage of the Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus). Since its first edition in 1941, another six impressions ...

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