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01 March 1970 Comments Notes Somersaulting behaviour of Canada Geese On ist February 1970 we were members of a party of more than 20 people who witnessed an extraordinary performance by about 200 Canada Geese Branta canadensis which we had watched coming down on Ellesmere, Shropshire...

The first ten years of the Rarities Committee

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper This survey is concerned with the efforts of the editors of this journal, and of the Rarities Committee set up by them in 1959s to collect, investigate, judge and publish annually in one document the essential details of all the rarer vagrants seen in Bri...

More examples of the best recent work by British-photographers

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper Plates 16-23 This is the eleventh annual selection of the best contemporary work by British bird-photographers. Six of the species and three of the photographers are new to the series which has therefore now included 150 photographs of 104 species by 59 p...

Effect of 'Hamilton Trader' oil on birds in the Irish Sea in May 1969

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper Just before dawn on 30th April 1969 the tanker Hamilton Trader was damaged in a collision with a German coaster near the Bar light vessel in Liverpool Bay. About 700 tons of heavy fuel oil were spilled into the sea. This incident provided an opportunity t...

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THE "BRITISH BIRDS "MARKING SCHEME" PROGRESS FOR 1931

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NOTES ON THE TREE-SPARROW

01 October 1932 Comments ...

THE BREEDING-HABITS OF THE CORN-BUNTING (AS OBSERVED IN SUSSEX), WITH SOME NOTES ON ITS SONG, CRIES AND GENERAL DEPORTMENT

01 October 1932 Comments ...

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01 March 1932 Comments Notes SOME time ago there was discussion in British Birds on the habit of the male Hedge-Sparrow pecking at the cloaca of the female during courtship display. I have not seen reference to this habit with the House-Sparrow (Passer d. domesticus) and the followi...

The breeding-habits of the Corn-Bunting (as observed in Sussex) with some notes on its song, cries and general deportment

01 March 1932 Comments Main paper AT the end of February and early in March flocks of CornBuntings (Emberiza c. calandra), in which doubtless many immigrants figure, suddenly appear in recognized breedingareas. Pairing begins shortly afterwards, but is not intense until early in April. So...

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The first ten years of the Rarities Committee

More examples of the best recent work by British-photographers

Effect of 'Hamilton Trader' oil on birds in the Irish Sea in May 1969

NOTES

THE "BRITISH BIRDS "MARKING SCHEME" PROGRESS FOR 1931

NOTES ON THE TREE-SPARROW

THE BREEDING-HABITS OF THE CORN-BUNTING (AS OBSERVED IN SUSSEX), WITH SOME NOTES ON ITS SONG, CRIES AND GENERAL DEPORTMENT

Notes

The breeding-habits of the Corn-Bunting (as observed in Sussex) with some notes on its song, cries and general deportment

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