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01 January 1962 Comments News and comment [These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] Our last summary reviewed the occurrences of unusual Passerines and of all American species from early August to November, against a background of the more striking movements of common land ...

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01 January 1962 Comments Notes G o l d e n E a g l e a t t a c k i n g Reindeer.--With reference to the recent papers by Dr. K. Curry-Lindahl and Dr. G. Bergman on the food and feeding habits of birds of prey in Fenno-Scandia (Brit, Birds, 54: 297-306, 307-320), it may be of interest t...

Studies of less familiar birds 116. Crested Lark

01 January 1962 Comments Main paper cristatd) here, but they show the salient features very well. The species gets its name from the long upstanding crest which arises from the middle of its crown and which is conspicuous even when depressed. Many other larks have crests and inexperienced o...

Observations on a Honey Buzzard digging out a wasps' nest

01 January 1962 Comments Main paper O N 22ND A N D 23RD S E P T E M B E R I 9 5 9, I had an opportunity of watching and photographing a Honey Buzzard (Perms apivorus) digging out a wasps' nest in Utterslev Mose, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The wasps were of the common species (Vespa vulga...

A study of suburban bird-life at Dollis Hill

01 January 1962 Comments Open Access IntroductionUntil the present time no thorough or systematic survey of the distribution and behaviour of the birds of a suburban area has appeared since F . D . Power's Ornithological Notes from a South London Suburb...

AUTUMN BIRD-MIGRATION ACROSS THE SOUTH MIDLANDS OF ENGLAND

01 August 1950 Comments Main paper The existence of an overland migration route across the South Midlands of England, during the autumn months. Observations made in the autumn of 1948 within a few miles of the Cotswold Hills led to the discovery of such a route running in a south-w...

REPORT ON THE "BRITISH BIRDS" CENSUS OF HERONRIES, 1928

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LETTERS: THE DIVING-HABITS OF THE LONG-TAILED DUCK; FLEDGING-PERIODS OF WOOD-PIGEON AND ROBIN; FULMARS BREEDING IN DURHAM

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01 April 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--The observations conducted b y Messrs. Ingram and Salmon on the dives of the Long-tailed Duck (antea, p . 264) reopen a veryinteresting question, and one which, I think, is still some way from being satisfactorily answered. In estimating the averag...

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Studies of less familiar birds 116. Crested Lark

Observations on a Honey Buzzard digging out a wasps' nest

A study of suburban bird-life at Dollis Hill

AUTUMN BIRD-MIGRATION ACROSS THE SOUTH MIDLANDS OF ENGLAND

REPORT ON THE "BRITISH BIRDS" CENSUS OF HERONRIES, 1928

LETTERS: THE DIVING-HABITS OF THE LONG-TAILED DUCK; FLEDGING-PERIODS OF WOOD-PIGEON AND ROBIN; FULMARS BREEDING IN DURHAM

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