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01 April 1956 Comments Reviews with field assistance by GEORGE EDWARDS. (Faber and Faber, London, 1955). 128 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 18s. Birds Fighting is one of the first bird books to be illustrated mainly with electronic flash photographs. A number of them have already appeared in t...

Notes

01 April 1956 Comments Notes Purple Heron in Surrey.--On 18th September 1955 I disturbed a juvenile Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) in a patch of rather close-growing reeds at the south end of Frensham Little Pond, six miles N . W . of Haslemere, Surrey. First seen indistinctly in the ...

Special Review

01 April 1956 Comments Reviews and 1955). 162 pages and 24 p l a t e s ; 235 pages and 24 plates. Each 10s. T H E activities of the W r ildfowl Trust have expanded enormously since its inception in 1946. T h e contents of the First Annual Report, reviewed in this journal in 1948, consi...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXX. Black Kite

01 April 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 5-7) W H E N one considers how near t o Britain the Black Kite (Milvus migrans) breeds on more or less the same latitude--north Germany and the eastern shores of the Baltic, a range in northern Europe not unlike that of t h e annually recorded Red...

Some Notes on the Red-Spotted Bluethroat

01 April 1956 Comments Main paper T H E following' observations on the breeding" biology of the Redspotted Bluethroat (Cyanosylvia s. svecica) were made at Abisko in Swedish Lapland from 14th June to 4th July, 1955. Abisko (68Â° 2 1 ' N . , 18Â° 49' E.) is situated at the mouth of the...

Migration of Little Stints, Curlew Sandpipers and Ruffs Through Great Britain in the autumn of 1953

01 April 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the autumn of 1953 a large passage migration of Little Stints (Calidris minutd), Curlew Sandpipers (C. testacea) and Ruffs (Philomachus pugnax) occurred in Great Britain, the numbers at some localities being described as exceptional. In response to...

Letters

01 April 1956 Comments Letters CYANISTIC EGG O F C U R L E W S I R S , -- T h e r e is surely nothing' very remarkable about the finding by Messrs. W . G. Hale and G. W e b s t e r of a single cyanic type egg of the Curlew (Numenius arquata), on a Lancashire moor on 7th May 1955 (antea...

Letters

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 ...

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Reviews

Notes

Special Review

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXX. Black Kite

Some Notes on the Red-Spotted Bluethroat

Migration of Little Stints, Curlew Sandpipers and Ruffs Through Great Britain in the autumn of 1953

Letters

Letters

Notes

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

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