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01 August 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Is it generally known t h a t t h e Green Woodpecker eats fruit ? I watched one on October 23rd making a hearty meal off an apple a few yards from m y window, and since then many large apples picked u p plainly show t h e marks of this bird's power...

Reviews

01 August 1963 Comments Reviews Report on the Immigration of Summer-residents in the Spring of 1912 ; also Notes on the Migratory Movements and Records received from Lighthouses and Light-vessels during the Autumn of 1911. By the Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Club (...

Notes

01 August 1963 Comments Notes I WAS at Dungeness from October 20th to 23rd, 1913, and a great deal of migration was proceeding at the time, chiefly of flocks of finches and other birds flying south in the early morning. Between 12 noon and 1 p.m. on the 20th I saw a party of thirteen...

Recovery of Marked Birds.

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper STABLINGS (Stumus v. vulgaris).--U513, 41526, 41539, 46201, 46284, 46310, 46314, 46363, 46375, immature, marked b y Mr. W. E . Suggitt, at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, during J u l y and August, 1913. Recovered during November and December, 1913, from near ...

The Dusky Warbler in Orkney. A New British Bird.

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper EAGLE CLARKE writes to the Scottish Naturalist (1913, pp. 271-3) that during the past autumn he and Dr. 0. B. Ticehurst with George Stout were observing migration on Auskerry (Orkneys), and that on October 3rd, 1913, a strange warbler was detected and ev...

On the Breeding-Habits of the Dartford Warbler

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper M Y first introduction to the Dartford Warbler {Sylvia undata dartfordiensis) was in 1906 in one of the home counties. Since then I have had exceptional opportunities of studying this most interesting bird, and some forty pairs in four widely separated lo...

Letters

01 October 1950 Comments Letters --I am engaged in investigating t h e ringing records of Blue Tits. Amongst the known causes of death it is astonishing to find that the mousetrap is a principal one. I t may be necessary to place r a t and mouse traps in gardens, b u t I suggest that the...

Notes

01 October 1950 Comments Notes WITH reference to the note (antea, p. 54) on this topic, in June, 1949, an Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura) made repeated stoops at my companion, Dr. H. K. Whitehouse, while he was standing by the bank of the river in Hvalfjordur a few yards from our camp in...

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper A CENSUS of cliff-nesting seabirds is usually carried out by making a careful count of every occupied nest, thus giving the number of breeding pairs. This is the most accurate method and can be carried out comparatively easily in the case of species that ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVII. Temminck's Stint, The Semipalmated Sandpiper, The Little Stint

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper Photographed by C. G. DES FORGES and j . E. SLUITERS. (Plates 50-59)IN the present instalment of this series we illustrate the two European stints and one of the American species on the British List. Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii) has a wide bree...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

Recovery of Marked Birds.

The Dusky Warbler in Orkney. A New British Bird.

On the Breeding-Habits of the Dartford Warbler

Letters

Notes

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVII. Temminck's Stint, The Semipalmated Sandpiper, The Little Stint

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