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01 August 1990 Comments Notes Oystercatchers incubating on closely adjacent nests. In early spring 1987, in a quiet corner of Blackpool Airport, Lancashire, soil, sand and chippings were dumped and then levelled. Later, the area became partly covered by vegetation and up to five Oy...

Mystery photographs

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper Perched conspicuously on a prominent vantage point, this mystery bird shows a fairly substantial bill, relatively long tail and black mask, a combination which quickly shows it to be one of the shrikes Lanius. The blackness of the wings and '...

Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1990 Comments Other 'LAND-RAILS IN STAFFORDSHIRE. I am pleased to report that the Land-Rail (Crex crex) turned up this year in quite average numbers in the district of Cheadle, Staffordshire . . . This very dry season is bringing on a very early hay harvest, and this...

Seasonal reports: winter 1989/90

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper The weather during this winter period was milder and wetter than average everywhere, with temperatures 2.5ºC above normal in much of southern and eastern England Unsettled westerly weather in early November changed to warm anticyclonic southeasterlies...

Plumage variation and identification of the 'Yelkouan Shearwater'

01 August 1990 Comments Main paper The classification of the European breeding shearwaters related to the Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus, and the identification of the Mediterranean forms yelkouan and mauretanicus, colloquially known as the 'Levantine Shearwater' and the 'Balearic Sh...

Letters

01 December 1955 Comments Letters Further remarks on discoloration in House Sparrows Sirs,--The observations of C. J. O. Harrison (Brit. Birds, 56: 296-297) on 'industrial' discoloration in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and other birds prompt us to record information on an allied pro...

Reviews

01 December 1955 Comments Reviews A Mosaic of Islands. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1963. 183 pages index; 22 black-and-white photographs; text-drawings and m - p s . 21s. The more remote islands around our coast have always held a great f...

Notes

01 December 1955 Comments Notes Peregrines rearing young Kestrels.--On n t h April 1963 W. N. Charles and I flushed a Peregrine {Fako peregrinus) from its eyrie in an old Raven (Corvus corax) nest in the Dumfriesshire hills. There were four eggs, one of which we took (under licence) for...

Obituary: Oliver G. Pike (1877-1963)

01 December 1955 Comments Obituaries W I T H T H E D E A T H O F Oliver Pike on 17th October 1963, at the age of 86, an era came to an end. He was the last of the great pioneers who, with Richard and Cherry Kearton and R. B. Lodge, began during the 1890's to take pictures of wild life in its...

The Pheasant in Wales

01 December 1955 Comments Main paper I N A S E R I E S O F P A P E R S published chiefly in this journal (Matheson 1953-60) an attempt was made to illustrate, by means of records from Welsh gamebooks, the changes and fluctuations in the population of the Partridge {Perdix perdix), an indigen...

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Notes

Mystery photographs

Seventy-five years ago

Seasonal reports: winter 1989/90

Plumage variation and identification of the 'Yelkouan Shearwater'

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: Oliver G. Pike (1877-1963)

The Pheasant in Wales

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