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01 February 1951 Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory Reports, 1940--'46, 1947, 1948, 1949. (t940-'46 out of print; others obtainable from Col. H. Allen, D.S.O., M.B.E., The Red House, Heywood Lane, Tenby, price 2/6). These four reports cover a long and chequered period of Skokholm...

Notes

01 February 1951 Comments Notes ...

The effect of a snow-storm on breeding birds

01 February 1951 Comments Main paper THE purpose of this paper is to summarize the effect of the severe snow-storm of April 26th, 1950, on a number of breeding birds, whose nests were under daily observation at the Imperial College Field Station, Silwood Park, Sunninghill, Berkshire, in conn...

Notes on the breeding habits of the Swift

01 February 1951 Comments Main paper DURING the years 1944-1949 some 250 visits were made to the tower of S S . Philip and James Church, Ilfracombe, Devon, in order to study the breeding habits of the Swift (Apus apus). These visits were made at hours ranging from 6.00 to 24.00, B.S.T. The n...

Obituary: Bernard William Tucker (1901-1950)

01 February 1951 Comments Obituaries IT is not much over ten years since Harry Witherby called Bernard Tucker to assist him with the editing' of this Magazine after the death of F . C. R. Jourdain, and it is little more than seven years since, on Harry Witherby's own death, the editorial res...

Migrants through Malta and Gozo: October, 1941 to July, 1945

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper In Autumn 1941 and spring 1945, I had an opportunity of noting the comings and goings of migrants through the islands of Malta and Gozo. The vast majority of the birds seen were British birds, in so far as they are on the British List, and were passage...

Territory in the Ringed Plover

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper IN July, 1944, I had an opportunity of studying the territorial behaviour of Ringed Plover (Charadrius h. hiaticula), at Malahide, Co. Dublin, where large numbers nest in and around the tern colony. The conditions for observation were exceptionally fav...