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01 September 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was generally a cold, wet month, with an interesting period between 8th and i ith as a depression moved east across Britain bringing rain and low cloud with east and north-east winds. Many...

News and comment

01 September 1975 Comments News and comment Grants for nature conservation The Nature Conservancy Council announced on i ith August that it had just awarded 90 grants, totalling £50,000, to encourage nature conservation by voluntary bodies, local authorities and private individuals. The large...

Letters

01 November 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--The points which Mr. K. Williamson makes (antea, pp. 231-32) in connection with a remark of mine on the distribution of the Alaska Wren (Troglodytes t. alascensis) (antea, pp. 48-49) are of interest not only in regard t o the evolution of wren race...

Reviews

01 November 1953 Comments Reviews Social Behaviour in Animals. By N. Tinbergen. (Methuen, London, 1953). 12s.6d. IN The Study of Instinct (reviewed in vol. xlv, p. 182) Dr. Tinbergen was concerned with the entire study of animal behaviour and with its results up to 1948. In the present, m...

Notes

01 November 1953 Comments Notes Effective distraction display by Mallard.--As only a few observations have been recorded indicating the effectiveness of distraction display by a parent bird in deflecting the attention of a potential predator from the young [Bird Display, pp. 104-105) t...

Displacement-sleeping in the Avocet and Oystercatcher as a reaction to predators

01 November 1953 Comments Main paper (Illustrations by Robert Gillmor.) MAKKINK'S studies (1936, 1942) on the behaviour of the Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) and the Oystercatcher (Hasmatopus ostralegus) have shown that, at certain points during intraspecific fighting', both these species m...

The song of the Woodpigeon

01 November 1953 Comments Main paper DURING 1948, one of us (J.S.H.), after listening carefully to the singing- of the Woodpigeon (Columba palumbus) and the recording of a number of its songs, came to the conclusion that the song of this species differed from the generally accepted version, ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed LII. Hawk Owl and Ural Owl

01 November 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 60-67). T H E Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula) is a distinctive bird gaining- its name from the hawk-like appearance of its relatively small flattopped head (see plate 62), rather short and pointed wings and long tail. In flight it somewhat resembles a Kes...

An observational study of the Gulls of Southampton water

01 November 1953 Comments Main paper T H E work described in this short paper was carried out in the winters of 1950/51 and 1951/52 mostly in the Southampton area. I am most grateful to my friends from the New Forest Ornithologists' Club, Gordon Wooldridge, Alan Moody, Barry Goater, and Keit...

The index of heron population

01 March 1950 Comments Main paper The number of heronries on which reports for 1949 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 162, or 16 more than in the previous year. Of these 117 were in England, 9 in Wales, 17 in Scotland and 19 in Ireland. We are indebted to 79 informants of who...

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