Letters

01 August 1963
Comments Letters SIRS,--Is it generally known t h a t t h e Green Woodpecker eats fruit ? I watched one on October 23rd making a hearty meal off an apple a few yards from m y window, and since then many large apples picked u p plainly show t h e marks of this bird's power...
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Reviews

01 August 1963
Comments Reviews Report on the Immigration of Summer-residents in the Spring of 1912 ; also Notes on the Migratory Movements and Records received from Lighthouses and Light-vessels during the Autumn of 1911. By the Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Club (...
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Notes

01 August 1963
Comments Notes I WAS at Dungeness from October 20th to 23rd, 1913, and a great deal of migration was proceeding at the time, chiefly of flocks of finches and other birds flying south in the early morning. Between 12 noon and 1 p.m. on the 20th I saw a party of thirteen...
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Recovery of Marked Birds.

01 August 1963
Comments Main paper STABLINGS (Stumus v. vulgaris).--U513, 41526, 41539, 46201, 46284, 46310, 46314, 46363, 46375, immature, marked b y Mr. W. E . Suggitt, at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, during J u l y and August, 1913. Recovered during November and December, 1913, from near ...
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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 ...
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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...
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