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01 December 1964 Comments Notes Apparent anting by Kestrel.--On 22nd September 1962 a friend and I were driving along the main road between Port Clarence and Seaton Carew, Co. Durham, when we saw a female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus fly up from an adjacent strip of rough grassland and ali...

Observations on Arctic Terns in Spitsbergen

01 May 1959 Comments Main paper at a colony of Arctic Terns (Sterna macrura) in the vicinity of Kapp Linne, on the south side of the entrance to Isfjord, W e s t Spitsbergen (Lat. 78Â°3'N.). This colony has been described by L0venskiold (1954). It is situated on the north and east sho...

The migrations of the Lesser Black-backed Gull

01 July 1953 Comments Main paper T H E following- report covers the summer extension of an Enquiry into the status of the Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) which was opened in November, 1949. Owing- to the promising response to the announcement of this enquiry by the British Trust ...

The status of the Lesser Black-backed Gull

01 January 1952 Comments Main paper THE main purpose of the Enquiry, conducted with the help of the British Trust for Ornithology in the winters of 1949-50 and 1950-51, was to obtain definite information on the present winter status of this species in the British Isles and, if possible, to ...

Letters

01 December 1950 Comments Letters SIRS,---A note recently published in British Birds (antea, p. 89) commenting on the presence of Bewick's Swans a t Malltraeth, suggests t h a t the status of this species in Anglesey is t h a t of a n occasional visitor. These birds are, however, more reg...

Notes

01 April 1948 Comments Notes IN a recent volume of British Birds (antea. Vol. xxxix, pp. 212 and 340) records are given of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) nesting in heronries. I should like to record that for several years up to 1942, a pair of Ravens nested in a circle of tall pines cont...

Notes

01 January 1948 Comments Notes WITH reference to my note (antea, Vol. xl, p. 209) concerning the large gathering of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in Carmarthenshire in March, 1946, I was interested to read Mr. Cadman's note which immediately followed my own. In reply to Mr. Cadman's query ...

Letters

01 July 1937 Comments Letters SIRS,--I feel that, in order t o bring this u p t o date, some comments are called for as regards Mr. Stanley Lewis's interesting account of " Birds of Steep Holm " (Vol. X X X . , pp. 219-223) in view of t h e fact t h a t for t h e past five years (1933...

Letter

01 August 1936 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Rev. J. M. McWilliam in his letter on the above (antea, p . 56) remarks in his closing paragraph t h a t he " cannot remember seeing any notes on t h e effect of the angle of sunlight on t h e apparent colour of birds." We would refer Mm to our...

Letter

01 July 1936 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have often been struck by the apparent differences in colour of Lesser Black-backed Gulls on the Clyde. On May gth, 1936, a t 9.30 a.m. (summer time) I watched half a dozen of these Gulls sitting on a railing on Dunoon pier within a few yar...

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Notes

Observations on Arctic Terns in Spitsbergen

The migrations of the Lesser Black-backed Gull

The status of the Lesser Black-backed Gull

Letters

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Letters

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