Search

Migration at the Smith's Knoll light-vessel, autumn 1953

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Reviews

01 February 1961 Comments Reviews Vara Faglar i Norden (Our Birds in the North). Second edition edited by Kai Curry-LindaM (Swedish text). Bokforlaget Natur och Cultur, Stockholm, 1959 and i960. Volumes I and II, 1022 pages; coloured and black-and-white plates, and maps, (Four volumes: Sw...

Notes

01 February 1961 Comments Notes Ring-necked Duck in Co. Armagh.--A male Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) stayed on the lake in the Public Park, Lurgan, Co. Armagh, from 20th March till 1st May i960 and was seen on many occasions by various observers. It then disappeared, but returned ...

Some photographic studies of the Nightjar

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper I N G E N E R A L W E TRY to publish photographs for their biological interest or because they illustrate points of identification, rather than for their aesthetic value. This aim is always borne in mind in the selection and presentation of the photograph...

An interpretation of variation in the dark-headed forms of the Yellow Wagtail

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper variation to be seen in the Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava). T h e chief mistake made by most investigators has been that of splitting the group into too many forms on the basis of too few specimens, the most flagrant example of this being in the monogra...

The " Lesser Scaup " problem

01 February 1961 Comments Main paper observations in Britain of ducks that were thought to be Lesser Scaups (Aythya affinis), a North American species not recorded in Europe. This note is based on a detailed examination of one of these --that first seen at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, in Dec...

Letters

01 February 1961 Comments Letters The Len Howard Appeal Sirs--All readers of Miss Len Howard's books Birds as Individuals and Living with Birds have been distressed to learn that her life's work is threatened by building on the land next to her garden sanctuary. For twenty-one years Miss ...

Reviews

01 October 1956 Comments Reviews LOCAL REPORT REVIEWS YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION: ORNITHOLOGICAL R E P O R T , for 1953 (26 pages), and 1954 (27 pages). E d i t o r : R. Chislett, Brookside, Masham, N r . Ripon. Price 2s. each. T H E very full and detailed systematic lists of 22 pages ...

Gulls Feeding on Grain

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper DURING the third week in August 1955, gulls frequented a field overlooking the Dale Estuary in St. Ishmael's, Pembrokeshire. They spent the whole day there, and fully three acres where they assembled were littered with patches of corn husks, each patch be...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXIV. Citril Finch

01 October 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 53-56) T H E Citril Finch (Carduelis citrinella) is restricted as a breeding bird to the mountain ranges of southern E u r o p e -- N . E . and S.E. Spain (chiefly.Pyrenees, Sierra de Guadarrama and Sierra Nevada), S. France (Massif Central, Pyren...

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now

Search

Migration at the Smith's Knoll light-vessel, autumn 1953

Reviews

Notes

Some photographic studies of the Nightjar

An interpretation of variation in the dark-headed forms of the Yellow Wagtail

The " Lesser Scaup " problem

Letters

Reviews

Gulls Feeding on Grain

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXIV. Citril Finch

Sign Up to our Newsletter