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01 October 1972 Comments Notes Great Blue Herons coming on board ships in mid-Atlantic In late November 1968 reports appeared in the Bristol press that a heron had arrived at Avonmouth on a British merchantman, M.V. Pkardy, and had been taken to Rode Tropical Bird Gardens at Frome, Som...

Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper In October 1962, while travelling from New York to Southampton in R.M.S. Mauretania, I was fortunate to witness a fall of over 130 American landbirds of 34 species (Durand 1963). This was the highlight of five years of voyaging across the North Atlantic i...

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper ...

Editorial: Field guides and identification

01 October 1972 Comments Editorials The recent publication of The Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East, by Hermann Heinzel, Richard Fitter and John Parslow (reviewed on pages 445-448), has met with a wide range of reactions, both favourable and unfavourable. Thi...

Recent reports—July

01 October 1972 Comments Recent Reports ...

Studies of less familiar birds 110. Grey-rumped Sandpiper

01 January 1961 Comments Main paper rumped Sandpiper (Tringa brevipes)* because it inhabits the remotest and wildest mountains of north-eastern Siberia. During the last few years, however, observations have been made by A.V.K., V. I. Kapitonov, K. A. Vorobiev and A. P. Vaskovski, and the fo...

Four invasions of Waxwings during 1956-60

01 January 1961 Comments Main paper T H E W A X W I N G (Bombycilla garrulus) has a Holarctic breeding distribution in the boreal zone (see Fig. i) reaching the July isotherm of 50Â° F and extending from Fenno-Scandia right across the Eurasian land-mass and into north-western America. The...

Recent reports and news

01 January 1961 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 January 1961 Comments Reviews T h e Eleventh Annual Report of the Wildfowl Trust. Edited by H u g h Boyd and Peter Scott. Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, i960. 168 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 10s. The Wildfowl Trust's Annual Report contains, as usual, a varied assortment of news of the collect...

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