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Migration at the Smith's Knoll light-vessel, autumn 1953

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 November 1973 Comments Main paper In this, the final part of the series, we deal with the two remaining falcons, the three Acripiter hawks and the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus. These six species are divided into two groups--the kestrels and Black-winged Kite, and the Accipiters. ...

The breeding birds of a New Forest valley

01 November 1973 Comments Main paper The extensive heaths, unenclosed woodlands and valley bogs of the New Forest, Hampshire, are of outstanding scientific interest and collectively form the largest remaining tract of 'semi-natural' or 'unsown' vegetation in lowland Britain. The Forest wa...

Recent Reports

01 November 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary deals mainly with August, a month in which strong westerly winds in the first week brought in a number of American waders. However, anticyclonic conditions thereafter prod...

Reviews

01 November 1973 Comments Reviews The Natural History of Cape Clear Island. Edited by J. T. R. Sharrock. T. & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1973. 208 pages; 18 photographs; many maps, diagrams and line-drawings. £3.00. Since 1959 Cape Clear has established itself as a major European bi...

Notes

01 November 1973 Comments Notes Unusual behaviour of Black-necked Grebe From 6th to 15th October 1969, I daily observed a Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis in the harbour of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. When undisturbed by passing boats, it frequently dived and fed insid...

Reviews

01 October 1956 Comments Reviews LOCAL REPORT REVIEWS YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION: ORNITHOLOGICAL R E P O R T , for 1953 (26 pages), and 1954 (27 pages). E d i t o r : R. Chislett, Brookside, Masham, N r . Ripon. Price 2s. each. T H E very full and detailed systematic lists of 22 pages ...

Gulls Feeding on Grain

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the third week in August 1955, gulls frequented a field overlooking the Dale Estuary in St. Ishmael's, Pembrokeshire. They spent the whole day there, and fully three acres where they assembled were littered with patches of corn husks, each patch be...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXIV. Citril Finch

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 53-56) T H E Citril Finch (Carduelis citrinella) is restricted as a breeding bird to the mountain ranges of southern E u r o p e -- N . E . and S.E. Spain (chiefly.Pyrenees, Sierra de Guadarrama and Sierra Nevada), S. France (Massif Central, Pyren...

Notes on Selected Migrants at Cap Gris Nez, North France, In 1955

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the course of 1955 the writer visited Cap Gris Nez, Pas de Calais, on the north coast of France, to examine the nature of the migration which occurs on this important headland. Altogether three visits were made, the first, during 8 t h - n t h Apri...

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Migration at the Smith's Knoll light-vessel, autumn 1953

Flight identification of European raptors

The breeding birds of a New Forest valley

Recent Reports

Reviews

Notes

Reviews

Gulls Feeding on Grain

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXIV. Citril Finch

Notes on Selected Migrants at Cap Gris Nez, North France, In 1955

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