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01 October 1950 Comments Letters --I am engaged in investigating t h e ringing records of Blue Tits. Amongst the known causes of death it is astonishing to find that the mousetrap is a principal one. I t may be necessary to place r a t and mouse traps in gardens, b u t I suggest that the...

Notes

01 October 1950 Comments Notes WITH reference to the note (antea, p. 54) on this topic, in June, 1949, an Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura) made repeated stoops at my companion, Dr. H. K. Whitehouse, while he was standing by the bank of the river in Hvalfjordur a few yards from our camp in...

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper A CENSUS of cliff-nesting seabirds is usually carried out by making a careful count of every occupied nest, thus giving the number of breeding pairs. This is the most accurate method and can be carried out comparatively easily in the case of species that ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVII. Temminck's Stint, The Semipalmated Sandpiper, The Little Stint

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper Photographed by C. G. DES FORGES and j . E. SLUITERS. (Plates 50-59)IN the present instalment of this series we illustrate the two European stints and one of the American species on the British List. Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii) has a wide bree...

Recovery of marked birds

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper Fair Isle Bird Obs., 8.6.49. Noness, Shetland, 25.10.49. Rogart (Suth.), 26.5.49, D y Bushmills (Antrim), 3.12.49. R. Carrick. St. Osyth (Essex), 17.5.49, Boston (Lines.), 13.11.49 by R. W. Arthur. [95 m. N.N.W.].Chipping (Lanes.), 23.3.50 [170 m. S.]. Ly...

Letters

01 April 1945 Comments Letters SIRS,'--With reference t o Mr. Howard Bentham's record of a pair of SongThrushes (Turdus e. ericetorum) rearing two broods in t h e same nest (antea, p. 157), it may be of interest t o report t h a t , in 1944, in my garden in Mawganin-Pydar, I obtained m...

Reviews

01 April 1945 Comments Reviews Report on the Birds of Nottinghamshire, 1943. Compiled for the Nottingham Natural Science Field Club and the Trent Valley Bird Watchers by J. Staton. W E are very glad t o welcome an independent report on Nottinghamshire which bears testimony to t h e go...

Notes

01 April 1945 Comments Notes SINCE I find no reference to the courtship-feeding of the female Linnet (Carduelis c. cannabina) by the male in the Handbook of British Birds, perhaps the following m a y be of interest. On April 24th, 1944, a number of Linnets were feeding on weed seeds...

Feeding of Blue Tit Nestlings

01 April 1945 Comments Main paper T H E occupation last year (1944) of a special nesting box by a pair of Blue Tits {Varus ccsruleus obscurus) enabled me to observe at very close quarters the feeding of the nestlings. This I was anxious to do in order to find, if possible, what method or ...

Notes on the Territory and Breeding Behaviour of Blackcap and Garden-Warbler

01 April 1945 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the Blackcap (Sylvia a. atricapilla) and the Garden-Warbler (Sylvia borin) were made in Colwick Woods, Nottinghamshire, an area of wood and parkland about two miles square. Ten pairs of each species were the maximum number u...

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Letters

Notes

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVII. Temminck's Stint, The Semipalmated Sandpiper, The Little Stint

Recovery of marked birds

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Feeding of Blue Tit Nestlings

Notes on the Territory and Breeding Behaviour of Blackcap and Garden-Warbler

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