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Report on bird ringing for 1951

01 August 1952 Comments Main paper Bird-Ringing Committee, British Trust for Ornithology. This is the fifteenth r e p o r t ! issued on behalf of the Committee, continuing; the earlier sequence under the title " T h e British Birds Marking S c h e m e . " It is in the form instituted last ...

Notes

01 August 1952 Comments Notes Rogers informs us that on April i s t , 1950, he watched a Starling {Sturnus vulgaris) attacking a Chrysanthemum. Leaves were torn off, pecked into shreds and left on the ground, b u t were later carried off with other nesting material. Mr. R. G. Finnis r...

The post-fledging dispersal of Juvenile Titmice

01 August 1952 Comments Main paper T H E dispersal of young' birds away from their birth-places has been studied for a number of species by different authors. Kluijver (1951), Koskimies (1948), Kratzig (1939) and Plattner & Sutter (1946, 1947) have all made studies of dispersal in the Grea...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLII. The Great White Heron, The Glossy Ibis, The Squacco Heron

01 August 1952 Comments Main paper W e a r e publishing this month photographs taken in Hungary by Arthur Brook of some of the rarer Herons. T h e largest and most g a u n t of them, t h e Great W h i t e Heron (Egretta alba), (Plate 61) is the rarest in this country, only seven occurrence...

Letters

01 August 1952 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Ibis for April 1953 will include a group of papers on Visible Migration (particularly in passerine birds) as observed in various countries. The newly-formed Sub-committee on Visible Migration of the British Trust for Ornithology (see below) fee...

Review

01 November 1950 Comments Letters Bird Life. By Edward A. Armstrong. (Lindsay Drummond, 1949.) 12/6. Field Study Books : The Lapwing. By E. A. R. Ennion. (Methuen, 1949.) 6/-. These two books, though differing in approach and in scope, have the same audience and end in view. They have bot...

Notes

01 November 1950 Comments Notes ON January 4th, 1950, we were standing in the road beside Bolney Grange Ltd., Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, watching about 30-40 WoodPigeons (Columba palumbus) feeding under a tree, when we heard the harsh calls of Carrion Crows (Corvus corone). We looked up, ...

Birds of Inner London, 1949

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper " A List of the Birds of Inner London " was published in 1929 by A. Holte Macpherson {vide antea, vol. xxii, pp. 222-244) and notes on changes in status and of unusual occurrences have appeared annually in British Birds since then. The volume of records r...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVIII. The Calandra Lark, The Short-Toed Lark, The Black-Eared Wheatear

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper (Plates 62-73) W E illustrate this month three South European passerine birds all characteristic of more or less arid country, the two larks especially so, and all photographed during the past summer on the Crau, the remarkable tract of stony, desert-like...

The Northern Golden Plover in South Staffordshire

01 November 1950 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the Northern Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria altifrons) in South Staffordshire are of interest in view of the recent note by E. O. Hohn (i), describing the appearance of flocks of these birds in the north of the county on ...

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Report on bird ringing for 1951

Notes

The post-fledging dispersal of Juvenile Titmice

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLII. The Great White Heron, The Glossy Ibis, The Squacco Heron

Letters

Review

Notes

Birds of Inner London, 1949

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVIII. The Calandra Lark, The Short-Toed Lark, The Black-Eared Wheatear

The Northern Golden Plover in South Staffordshire

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