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01 October 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The beginning of June was exceptional with snow and northerly gales, but a long anticyclonic spell which followed brought dry, warm conditions to most parts. A Red-throated Diver Ga...

News and comment

01 October 1975 Comments News and comment Mammals on Islands In an article in New Scientist for 21st August, Dr W. R. P. Bourne expresses concern about damage to the vegetation of small outlying islands by introduced herbivores. He contrasts the vigorous policy of the New Zealand ...

Notes

01 October 1975 Comments Notes Cormorants roosting on spire In the late summer and autumn of 1973 Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo regularly roosted on Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex. When this habit was first noted in mid-August only two birds were involved, but numbers gr...

Behaviour of an incubating Woodcock

01 October 1975 Comments Main paper In his well-known paper on the breeding habits of the'Woodcock Scolopax rusticola, Steinfatt (1938) records: 'The brooding female only rarely changes her position during the day; she lies for hours on the nest motionless. There seems to be a sort of ri...

Birds in action

01 October 1975 Comments Main paper Bird photographs used to consist mainly of rather static studies at the nest. Then there developed the technique of 'wait and see' photography from hides at likely feeding and drinking places. Now more powerful lenses and more adventurous techniques ha...

A study of the Carrion/Hooded Crow in north-east Scotland

01 October 1975 Comments Main paper Carrion/Hooded Crows Corvus c. corone/cornix were unmolested on my study area from January 1966 to April 1969 as part of a long-term study of Crow predation on eggs of Red Grouse Lagopus I. scoticus. This gave me an unusual opportunity to study Cr...

The spread of Cetti's Warbler in north-west Europe

01 October 1975 Comments Main paper Seventy years ago Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti was practically confined in Europe to the Mediterranean littoral, being found in France only in Provence and the department of Pyrenees Atlantiques (Yeatman 1971). It was considered to be essentially seden...

Letter

01 September 1943 Comments Letters SIRS --It was with very great interest t h a t I read the articles on incubation in the June and July numbers by Col. Ryves and Mr. Tucker. From reading these articles I realised t h a t I must have had a quite unique experience regarding incubation by th...

Notes

01 September 1943 Comments Notes DURING the last year I have been able to pay regular visits to the Sewage Farm just outside the town of Bedford and amongst the many birds seen, the following seem worthy of note. I am grateful to Mr. B. O. Clifford and Mr. A. J. Swain for providing me wi...

Nest-Site Selection by birds

01 September 1943 Comments Main paper T H E late F . C. R. Jourdain writing on " Our Present Knowledge of the Breeding-Biology of B i r d s " (antea, Vol. xxiv, p. 135) remarked : "Every detail of the life of the bird is important. For example most valuable and interesting light is thrown on ...

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Recent reports

News and comment

Notes

Behaviour of an incubating Woodcock

Birds in action

A study of the Carrion/Hooded Crow in north-east Scotland

The spread of Cetti's Warbler in north-west Europe

Letter

Notes

Nest-Site Selection by birds

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