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01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

01 November 2004 Comments Main paper This is the forty-sixth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of accepted records of rare birds in Britain in 2003, with some additional, outstanding records from earlier years. On average, we process about 1,000 re...

Report of the bird-ringing committee: progress for 1937

01 April 1938 Comments Main paper the period now under review, on June ist, 1937, the control of the former British Birds Marking Scheme was transferred to the Bird-Ringing Committee appointed for the purpose by the British Trust for Ornithology, under arrangements which have already been...

The index of Heron population, 1937

01 April 1938 Comments Main paper FOR the fourth year in succession* we were able in 1937 to keep accurate record of the fortunes of a large part of the breeding population of Herons {Ardea c. cinerea). It can hardly be said that the results have been dramatic. In England and Wales as a w...

Black Redstart breeding in an Eastern county of England

01 April 1938 Comments Main paper (Plate 13.) IT is only comparatively recently that the breeding of the Black Redstart (Phtznicurus 0. gibraltariensis) in the British Isles has been authentically recorded. During the spring and summer of 1937 a number of observers had the good fortune to...

Letters

01 April 1938 Comments Letters SIRS,--Since a t one or two widely separated localities in t h e Midlands this bird appears t o be on t h e increase, a n d in places is actually re-establishing itself after years of absence, i t h a s been thought desirable t o hold a thorough inquiry i...

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01 April 1938 Comments Reviews Handbuch der Deutschen Vogelkunde. Edited by G. Niethammer. Bd. i . Passeres (Leipzig : Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1937). T H E late Ernst Hartert was so impressed with t h e plan of the Practical Handbook t h a t after this had been taken in hand h...

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01 April 1938 Comments Notes I FIND that Mr. H. G. Alexander's Chart of Bird-Song (antea, Vol. XXIX, p. 194) has no record of the song of the Grey Wagtail (Motacilla c. cinerea) between mid-January and mid-March. The report of a song which I heard at 5.20 p.m. on February 24th, 1938...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

Report of the bird-ringing committee: progress for 1937

The index of Heron population, 1937

Black Redstart breeding in an Eastern county of England

Letters

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