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01 July 1962 Comments Reviews Photographing Garden Birds. By C. H. S. Tupholme. Faber, London, 1962. 127 pages; 4 colour and 6 monochrome photographs. 18s. Some excellent suggestions are given on methods of attracting wild birds into the garden by establishing various trees, shrubs an...

Notes

01 July 1962 Comments Notes Water Rail killing Little Stint and Eel.--With reference to the recent notes on Water Rails (Rallus aquaticus) killing a Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) and other small Passerines {Brit. Birds, 55: 132-133 and 165), I should like to record that on 4th Sept...

Irish Golden Eagles and a link with Scotland

01 July 1962 Comments Main paper of the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in northern Britain (see, for example, Nicholson 1957). Among the likely factors are the wartime respite from persecution, which probably resulted in a "post-war bulge" of surplus immatures, and the major shift in a...

An Ornithological sketch of the Barycz Valley in Poland

01 July 1962 Comments Main paper in western Poland, has long been famous for its birds. It is one of the few places in central Europe where such rare species as White-tailed Eagle, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Kite, Grey Lag Goose, Crane, Black Stork, Purple Heron* and others are concentrated i...

Feeding behaviour of the Turnstone in Arctic Canada

01 July 1962 Comments Main paper In 1955 we spent six months on northern Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, conducting field studies to obtain information for the National Museum of Canada on the breeding cycles of birds in the far north. The principal area of investigation was Fos...

Letter

01 July 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,---The statement (antea, p. 58) of Fr. Haverschmidt t h a t " I t seems that field observations are inadequate on this point, at least in Great Britain " is an injustice to British ornithology and ornithologists. As far back as 1896 there is evidence...

Notes

01 July 1946 Comments Notes Ox February 22nd, 1946, I received word from David Reid that a pair of Ravens {Corvus c. corax) were building a nest in a small Ayrshire heronry. I visited the site two days later and the nest, which could be distinguished from the Herons' by the presenc...

Report of the Black Redstart inquiry for 1945

01 July 1946 Comments Main paper THIS is the second annual interim Report of the Black Redstart Inquiry, and deals with the breeding status of the Black Redstart {Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) in the British Isles in 1945, together with certain breeding records for former years t...

The index of the Heron Population, 1945

01 July 1946 Comments Main paper THE number of reports on sites occupied by Herons in 1945, which were received at the Edward Grey Institute, was 137, or 26 more than in the previous year. This increase was mainly clue to the co-opcration of those taking part in rookery censuses, a numbe...

The food of the Wigeon and Brent Goose

01 July 1946 Comments Main paper The following report on the food of the Wigeon (Anas penelope) and Brent Goose (Branta bernicla) forms part of an inquiry into the food of British wildfowl, which I had been carrying out for some years before the outbreak of War. Since August 1939 no work...

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Reviews

Notes

Irish Golden Eagles and a link with Scotland

An Ornithological sketch of the Barycz Valley in Poland

Feeding behaviour of the Turnstone in Arctic Canada

Letter

Notes

Report of the Black Redstart inquiry for 1945

The index of the Heron Population, 1945

The food of the Wigeon and Brent Goose

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