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01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Letters

01 February 1956 Comments Letters S I R S , -- A census of breeding Great Black-backed Gulls (Larus marinns) in England and W a l e s in 1956 has been approved as an investigation of the British Trust for Ornithology. As organise* I shall be glad of offers of help from those who are willi...

Reviews

01 February 1956 Comments Reviews By SETON GORDON, C.B.E. (Collins " New N a t u r a l i s t , " London, 1955). 246 pages, 17 photographs. 16s. A MONOGRAPH on the Golden Eagle in Scotland is long overdue and who could have produced a better one than Seton Gordon? For half a century the a...

Notes

01 February 1956 Comments Notes Displacement coition in the Mallard.--On ioth May, 1951, a t Clayton-le-dale, near Blackburn, Lancashire, I was engaged in watching the behaviour of a pair of Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) tending fifteen young, which were newly hatched. T h e young fed fo...

Birds of a Trans-Atlantic Voyage in Late Spring 1954

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory) ALTHOUGH there are many papers concerning- the birds observed during- transects of the North Atlantic there is still room for advancement of our knowledge of seasonal distribution over this vast expanse of ocean. The present p...

Delayed Emigration of Certain Birds in Autumn 1954

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper SEVERAL notes received by the Editors of British Birds in the winter of 1954-55 confirmed the impression of some individual observers that the departure of migratory birds, both summervisitors and passage-migrants, had been unusually delayed in the autumn...

The Migrations of British Chats

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper T H E purpose of this paper is to analyse the recovery records of birds of species of " c h a t s " ringed in the British Isles under the scheme now managed by the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and earlier by the late H . F ....

Records of Wood Sandpipers in Britain in the Autumn of 1952

01 February 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the autumn of 1952, as noted previously (antea, vol. xlv, p. 432), a considerable passage of W o o d Sandpipers (Tringa glareola) was observed in many parts of Great Britain, particularly in the south-east. There is some evidence that the numbers o...

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Looking back

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

Letters

Reviews

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Birds of a Trans-Atlantic Voyage in Late Spring 1954

Delayed Emigration of Certain Birds in Autumn 1954

The Migrations of British Chats

Records of Wood Sandpipers in Britain in the Autumn of 1952

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