Recent Reports and News

01 October 1960
Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not he 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...
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Reviews

01 October 1960
Comments Reviews The Voices of Wild Birds in Nature (recordings). Recorded by Boris N . Weprinezev. Published by the Ail-Union Studio of Disc Recordings (No. 6227/8), i960, and to be obtainable through Collets Record Shop, 70 N e w Oxford Street, London, W.C.i. Price prob...
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Notes

01 October 1960
Comments Notes Little Ringed Plover "foot-tapping" to collect food.--On 2nd April i960, at a reservoir near the Suffolk coast, I watched a Little Ringed Plover {Charadrius dubius) feeding on the muddy bottom of a drained pond. It was tripping methodically around and eve...
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Reviews

01 January 1945
Comments Reviews The Duck Decoys of Essex. By W. E. Glegg. Essex Naturalist, Vol. xxvii, 1943-4, PP- 191-207 and 211-225, MR. W. E . GLEGG in this scholarly paper brings up to date his extensive knowledge of t h e Essex decoys and includes an interesting account of the ar...
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Notes

01 January 1945
Comments Notes reference to Capt. A. C. Fraser's note on this subject (antea, p. 94), I have the following note in my diary for December ioth, 1943 :-- Watched three Bullfinches (one male and two females) They were low down on Snowberry (Symphoricarpus) shrubs and at t...
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