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01 February 1976 Comments Reviews Watching Sea Birds. By Richard Perry. Groom Helm, London, 1975. 230 pages; 16 line-drawings; 2 maps. £4.75. This is not really a new book but a reprinting of parts of two of the author's earlier books, both of which--Lundy Isle of Puffins (194... Read More

The flight behaviour of Starlings at a winter roost

01 February 1976 Comments Main paper Co-ordinated flying displays by flocks of Starlings Sturnus vulgaris are often a feature at pre-roosting areas, but the most spectacular displays occur at the main roost, when very large numbers of birds fly together, prior to final roosting. On many e... Read More

Letter

01 December 1940 Comments Letters SIRS,--For some years past, Mr. Charles Oldham has regularly published observations on t h e midsummer movements of Swallows, House- and Sand-Martins and Swifts at t h e Tring and Elstree Reservoirs in t h e Transactions of the Herts Nat. Hist. Soc. An id... Read More

A Note on the Songs of Chaffinches and Yellow Buntings

01 December 1940 Comments Main paper IN the course of my study of the songs of birds, I have come across a factor in the make-up of the song of the Chaffinch (Fringilla c. gengleri), which, from the complete absence of any reference to it in such essays on bird song as I have read, would app... Read More