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Letter

01 May 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--One of our most important bird-reserves, Havergate Island, Suffolk, was severely damaged by the exceptional tide which swept down the East Anglian coast on February 1st. This island is not only unique in t h a t it contains the only British breedin...

Review

01 May 1953 Comments Reviews KKVIKW : COUNTY BIKD KEI>OKT. North Staffordshire Field Club, Annual Report, 1951-52. Edited by H. V. Thompson. A short report on birds includes notes on duck on Copmere in 1951. Goosanders were present in some numbers from January to March and from Novem...

Notes

01 May 1953 Comments Notes saw a Terek Sandpiper [Xenus cinereus) on Cowpen Marsh, Teesmouth, Co Durham. It was on the mud bordering; a flash behind the sea-wall originally with a substantial flock of Redshank (Tringa totanus) and Grey Plover (Squatarola squatarola), most of which ...

The birds of the St. Tudwal Islands

01 May 1953 Comments Main paper (Plate 27, left) THE two St. Tudwal Islands lie in Cardigan Bay a mile off the east coast of the Lleyn Peninsula of Caernarvonshire: their Ordovician rock is Arenig including Skiddaw slate, and has a thin covering of sandy turf. The W e s t Island, some 4...

The Collared Turtle Dove in Europe

01 May 1953 Comments Main paper Page Introduction... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 153 The Superspecies ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 154 The Barbary Dove ... ... ... ... 155 Hybrids 155 Streptope.Ua decaocto : its past and present distribution... ... ... 156 Japan Page 156 The Uppe...

Reviews

01 January 1945 Comments Reviews The Duck Decoys of Essex. By W. E. Glegg. Essex Naturalist, Vol. xxvii, 1943-4, PP- 191-207 and 211-225, MR. W. E . GLEGG in this scholarly paper brings up to date his extensive knowledge of t h e Essex decoys and includes an interesting account of the ar...

Notes

01 January 1945 Comments Notes reference to Capt. A. C. Fraser's note on this subject (antea, p. 94), I have the following note in my diary for December ioth, 1943 :-- Watched three Bullfinches (one male and two females) They were low down on Snowberry (Symphoricarpus) shrubs and at t...

Obituary: Jim Vincent (1883-1944)

01 January 1945 Comments Obituaries MANY of our readers will have learned with deep regret of the death of Jim Vincent, which took place at Norwich after a short illness on November 4th, As head keeper on Lord Desborough's Whiteslea estate at Hickling, Vincent was known to ornithologists al...

Departure of Swifts

01 January 1945 Comments Main paper THE arrival and departure of migrants are usually recorded by the dates upon which the first and last birds are seen. The arrival date of the first bird of any migrant species is usually fairly close to the arrival of the main bulk of that species : even ...

Some Observations on a remarkably coloured Heron

01 January 1945 Comments Main paper ON March 26th, 1944, I was watching with glasses some Herons (Ardea c. cinerea) in a small heronry near Athenry, Co. Galway, Eire. There were two birds on a newly started (late) nest. The nest was in a beech tree, and at that time the trees were bare so t...

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The birds of the St. Tudwal Islands

The Collared Turtle Dove in Europe

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: Jim Vincent (1883-1944)

Departure of Swifts

Some Observations on a remarkably coloured Heron

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