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Mortality of Adult and Young Mallards

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper A RECENT examination of the recovery data of Mallards (Anas p. platyrhyncha) ringed under the British Birds marking scheme, from its inception up to 1946, yielded no information as regards migration which was in any way additional to the excellent summary...

Tits and Peanuts

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper DURING the hard weather in February, 1947, my wife and 1 found a small cache of peanuts, preserved in the house since 1939, when we had been in the habit of stringing these together and hanging them up for the tits. On February 12th, therefore, I hung up...

"Plover's Page" Behaviour of Dunlin

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper O N May 3rd, 1931, a sunny day with a fresh N . W . wind, I was on the sea-wall between Marshside and Crossens, on the south side of the Ribble Estuary. On rough pastureland behind the sea-wall a flock of fully 500 Golden Plovers (Pluvialis a. apricaria)...

Agressive display of the Oyster-catcher

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"Smoke-bathing" of Starling and of Herring- and Black-headed Gulls

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Reviews

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Letters

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Notes

01 January 1948 Comments Notes WITH reference to my note (antea, Vol. xl, p. 209) concerning the large gathering of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in Carmarthenshire in March, 1946, I was interested to read Mr. Cadman's note which immediately followed my own. In reply to Mr. Cadman's query ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XII. The Bee-eater

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper the most exotic-looking of European birds, the Bee-eater (Merofis afiaster) is in fact a representative of a group mainly confined to the tropical regions of the Old World. So far as the western portion of its range is concerned it is a characteristically...

The breeding of Avocets in England in 1947

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper (Plates 1-3.) the summer of 1947 two small colonies of Avocets (Recurvirostra avosetta) established themselves in East Anglia. Apart from the isolated instance of two pairs nesting in Ireland in 1938 (Handbook of British Birds, Vol. iv, p. 411), this woul...

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