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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...

Reviews

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...

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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

Reviews

Notes

The effect of a snow-storm on breeding birds

Notes on the breeding habits of the Swift

Obituary: Bernard William Tucker (1901-1950)

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