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01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Notes on the summer food of the Kestrel in northern Ireland

01 April 1965 Comments Main paper Fakotinnunculusis perhaps the most common member of the Falconiform.es to be found in the British Isles and, as such, its prey in England has been the subject of a number of papers, notably those of Ellis (1946), Davis (i960) and Simms (1961). However, ve...

Studies of less familiars birds: 133. Long-tailed Skua

01 April 1965 Comments Main paper of the four species of skuas off the coasts of the British Isles. Yet it nests no further away than the Hardanger Vidda in south Norway, on virtually the same latitude as Shetland, and from there northwards in a wide belt embracing the highest parts of th...

The Spread of the Collared Dove in Britain and Ireland

01 April 1965 Comments Main paper Streptopelia decaocto has the distinction of being the only species (other than feral ones) which is not included in the 1952 Checklist of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, but which has now been seen within these islands by all bird-watchers with a...

Letters

01 April 1965 Comments Letters Manx Shearwaters as prey of Peregrines Sirs,--A recent note by A. J. Gaston (Brit. Birds, 57: 466-467) stated that there did not appear to be any previous record of the Manx Shearwater Procellaria puffinus as prey of the Peregrine Fa/co peregrinus in Brit...

Reviews

01 April 1965 Comments Reviews Portrait of a Desert: The Story of an Expedition to Jordan. By Guy Mountfort. Illustrated by Eric Hosking. Collins, London, 1965. 192 pages; 68 plates ( n in colour) incorporating 116 monochrome and 26 colour photos; 8 line-drawings and a map. 36s. This i...

Notes

01 April 1965 Comments Notes Manx Shearwaters and other sea-birds as prey of Peregrines and Golden Eagles.--The following observations may be of interest in view of the recent note by A. J. Gaston (Brit Birds, 5 7: 466-467). On 30th September 1964, at about 2,000 feet on Hallival, Is...

Recent reports: January to mid March

01 April 1965 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary deals with the six or seven weeks from late January to mid-March. It follows on after that in the February issue {Brit. Birds, 5 8: 62-64) and to some extent overlaps with it.So...

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Letters

Looking back

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

Notes on the summer food of the Kestrel in northern Ireland

Studies of less familiars birds: 133. Long-tailed Skua

The Spread of the Collared Dove in Britain and Ireland

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Reviews

Notes

Recent reports: January to mid March

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