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Notes to the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper DURING THE SUMMER of 1956 we visited the north-east of Iceland for the purpose of studying and filming; the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon (Falco rusticolus islandus). The expedition was in the Myvatn area from 9th to 21st J u n e . W e wish to record...

Recent reports and news

01 August 1958 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 August 1958 Comments Reviews By D. A. BANNERMAN. Illustrated by G. E. Lodge. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh), Vol. VI (I957)= 3 2 Â° pages; 26 colour plates. Vol. VII (1958): 256 pages; 27 colour plates. ^ 3 3s. each. THE SIXTH VOLUME describes the storks, herons, Flamingo, swans, ge...

Notes

01 August 1958 Comments Notes Eider's method of eating crabs.--On 16th December 1957 and subsequent days I had several first-winter Eiders (Somateria mollissima) under observation from the pier at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. They were seen diving from a range of a few yards and on returni...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCI. Bridled Tern

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper (Plates 45-48) T H E BRIDLED, Brown-winged or Panayan Tern (Sterna anaethetus), widely distributed in tropical and sub-tropical seas, has been recorded only three times in the British Isles. All were beach-drifted birds--one each at Dungeness, Kent, on 19...

Late season singing of the Yellowhammer

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper August showed that the birds were giving relatively large song totals. T h e maximum recorded from one bird w a s 3,482 songs in one day. Apart from August being a month when very few other species in Britain sing persistently, this can be regarded as ver...

Notes on the spring Territory of the Blackbird

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper study was made on the Dartington Hall estate, South Devon, in 1940, when the abnormal cold weather in late January and early February made possible the trapping and colour-ringing of an unusually large number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. tnerula). Unfortunate...

Some breeding-habits of the Black-winged Stilt

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus k. himantopus) were made in the Camargue at the end of April and early May, 1937. For many reasons I was unable to observe the full breeding cycle. These notes therefore refer only to the bi...

Abstracts

01 August 1941 Comments Reviews Wuczeticz (1939). " Seasonal distribution and migration of ducks (subiam. Anatina) on the base of bird-ringing in the U.S.S.R. III. The Gadwall--Anas strepera L.; the Shoveler--Spatula clypeata (L.) ; the Wigeon--Mar tea penelope (L.)." Moscow (Russian a...

Notes

01 August 1941 Comments Notes IN 1939, as already recorded in British Birds, Vol. xxxiii, p. 194, a male Hooded Crow (Corvus c. comix) and a female Carrion-Crow (C. c. cowrie) nested in Co. Dublin and successfully reared their young. In 1940, presumably the same pair again nested in ...

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Notes to the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon

Recent reports and news

Reviews

Notes

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCI. Bridled Tern

Late season singing of the Yellowhammer

Notes on the spring Territory of the Blackbird

Some breeding-habits of the Black-winged Stilt

Abstracts

Notes

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