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01 November 1996 Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...

Recent reports

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...

News and comment

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...

Looking Back

01 November 1996 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1995

01 November 1996 Comments Main paper After another year of excellent co-operation with many people, the British Birds Rarities Committee presents a comprehensive Report. The BBRC may be perceived as isolated and remote, but it is part of a network involving individual observers, county re...

Notes to the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper DURING THE SUMMER of 1956 we visited the north-east of Iceland for the purpose of studying and filming; the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon (Falco rusticolus islandus). The expedition was in the Myvatn area from 9th to 21st J u n e . W e wish to record...

Recent reports and news

01 August 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Reviews

01 August 1958 Comments Reviews By D. A. BANNERMAN. Illustrated by G. E. Lodge. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh), Vol. VI (I957)= 3 2 Â° pages; 26 colour plates. Vol. VII (1958): 256 pages; 27 colour plates. ^ 3 3s. each. THE SIXTH VOLUME describes the storks, herons, Flamingo, swans, ge...

Notes

01 August 1958 Comments Notes Eider's method of eating crabs.--On 16th December 1957 and subsequent days I had several first-winter Eiders (Somateria mollissima) under observation from the pier at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. They were seen diving from a range of a few yards and on returni...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCI. Bridled Tern

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper (Plates 45-48) T H E BRIDLED, Brown-winged or Panayan Tern (Sterna anaethetus), widely distributed in tropical and sub-tropical seas, has been recorded only three times in the British Isles. All were beach-drifted birds--one each at Dungeness, Kent, on 19...

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