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British Birds – August 2003

01 August 2003 Comments Latest issues ...

Monitoring the diets of farmland winter seed-eaters through raptor pellet analysis

01 August 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Pellets collected from winter roosts of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Hampshire were examined for plant seeds that occurred with the remains of passerines which would have been caught mostly in open f...

Numbers of wintering gulls in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man: a review of the 1993 and previous Winter Gull Roost Surveys

01 August 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT This paper summarises the January 1993 Winter Gull Roost Survey and evaluates the results of this and the four previous surveys of wintering gulls, carried out in 1953, 1963, 1973 and 1983. In total, 2,594,491 gulls were counted in Grea...

A 'post-Irish' review of 'firsts' for Britain

01 August 2003 Comments Notes ...

News and comment

01 August 2003 Comments News and comment ...

Notes

01 June 1943 Comments Notes As The Handbook of British Birds states that the Wood-Lark (Lullula a. arborea) does not apparently now nest in Essex, it is perhaps worth recording that on April n t h , 1943 I found a nest of this species on a piece of rough ground a few miles south of...

An investigation into the roles of males in relation to incubation

01 June 1943 Comments Main paper IN response to the Editor's request, I will endeavour in this paper to throw some fresh light on the subject of Incubation, of which we appear to have far from a full understanding. I claim no more than an attempt to probe into a subject of great complexi...

Some Observations on the Marsh-Harrier

01 June 1943 Comments Main paper (Plates 1-4.) THE status of the Marsh-Harrier {Circus a. esruginosus) as a breeding bird in Great Britain has for many years been very precarious. For at least 45 years' prior to 1915 there are no records of successful breeding though three attempts were ...

Review

01 June 1943 Comments Reviews Bird Display : An Introduction to the study of Bird Psychology. By Edward A. Armstrong. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1942). Illustrated: 2 1 / - n e t ; T H I S is certainly one of t h e most useful and welcome bird books t h a t have appeared for a long time,...

Reviews

01 April 1941 Comments Reviews Lundy : Isle of Puffins. By Richard Perry. (Lindsay Drummond.) With 37 photographs by Alan Richardson. 12s. 6d. net. T H I S book is the result of observation during the five summer months of 1939 which Mr. Perry spent on Lundy, off the N. Devon coast. It...

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