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01 March 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,--In Vol. xl, p. 245, you say t h a t the taking of food from the water b y Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) has apparently not been "previously recorded in our ornithological literature." I have recently had occasion t o search t h e literature for ...

Reviews

01 March 1948 Comments Reviews Ornithological Record for Derbyshire, 1946. Compiled b y W. K. Marshall. This publication gives evidence of considerable activity among Derbyshire bird-observers, and includes many interesting notes. To the "complete list of birds recorded in t h e count...

Notes

01 March 1948 Comments Notes ON July 19th, 1947, whilst cycling near Heytesbury, Wiltshire, I heard some Magpies (P. p. pica) chattering, as though alarmed, in a hawthorn not far from the road. I turned and was just in time to see a Carrion Crow (Corvus c. corone) strike a Magpie to...

The distinguishing characters of the Steppe-Buzzard

01 March 1948 Comments Main paper THE eastern race of the Buzzard, known as the Steppe-Buzzard, Buieo buteo vulpinus Gloger, which breeds as far west in Europe as North Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria, has been shown to occur as a bird of passage (and more rarely ...

Winter feeding hours of Robins, Blackbirds and Blue Tits

01 March 1948 Comments Main paper IT IS a matter of common knowledge that birds do not spend the whole of their waking hours looking for food, even during the short days of mid-winter. Gulls and waders, for instance, may be seen standing in flocks, inactive for hours on end. The watcher k...

Bird life on the Pett level floods, 1941-1943

01 March 1948 Comments Main paper [In 1940 Pett Level in Sussex was flooded as part of the war-time defences of the south coast, and a considerable area thus reverted for the time being to conditions which must have resembled those prevailing in this and other low-lying coastal tracts bef...

Notes

01 September 1947 Comments Notes ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking some...

Report of the bird-ringing committee

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper THIS is the tenth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The composition of the Committee remains the same...

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper the co-operation of 64 observers, it has been possible to provide evidence of the breeding of at least ten pairs of Black Redstarts (Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) in England in 1946. A further 13 pairs or singing males occupied territories, but wi...

Notes on Welsh Choughs

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper As THE Chough (Pyrrhocorax p. pyrrhocorax) is one of our lesserknown species, the following observations might be of interest as furnishing corroboration of the excellent account of this species given in The Handbook. The notes are the result of observati...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

The distinguishing characters of the Steppe-Buzzard

Winter feeding hours of Robins, Blackbirds and Blue Tits

Bird life on the Pett level floods, 1941-1943

Notes

Report of the bird-ringing committee

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

Notes on Welsh Choughs

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