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01 January 1962 Comments News and comment [These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] Our last summary reviewed the occurrences of unusual Passerines and of all American species from early August to November, against a background of the more striking movements of common land ...

Notes

01 January 1962 Comments Notes G o l d e n E a g l e a t t a c k i n g Reindeer.--With reference to the recent papers by Dr. K. Curry-Lindahl and Dr. G. Bergman on the food and feeding habits of birds of prey in Fenno-Scandia (Brit, Birds, 54: 297-306, 307-320), it may be of interest t...

Studies of less familiar birds 116. Crested Lark

01 January 1962 Comments Main paper cristatd) here, but they show the salient features very well. The species gets its name from the long upstanding crest which arises from the middle of its crown and which is conspicuous even when depressed. Many other larks have crests and inexperienced o...

Observations on a Honey Buzzard digging out a wasps' nest

01 January 1962 Comments Main paper O N 22ND A N D 23RD S E P T E M B E R I 9 5 9, I had an opportunity of watching and photographing a Honey Buzzard (Perms apivorus) digging out a wasps' nest in Utterslev Mose, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The wasps were of the common species (Vespa vulga...

A study of suburban bird-life at Dollis Hill

01 January 1962 Comments Open Access IntroductionUntil the present time no thorough or systematic survey of the distribution and behaviour of the birds of a suburban area has appeared since F . D . Power's Ornithological Notes from a South London Suburb...

The new protection of birds act

01 December 1954 Comments Main paper LONG after those who originally conceived it have died of old age or frustration, the Protection of Birds Act, 1954, came into force on December 1st, bringing to an end well over thirty years of miserable procrastination and repealing the whole of no les...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds, LXII. Snowy Owl

01 December 1954 Comments Main paper (Plates 69-72). As these photographs well show, the Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca) is an impressive creature, the adult male (plate 72) being white or creamy-white, sometimes unmarked or practically so and at most having only sparse scattering of bars and s...

The pattern of migration in 1953 at the East coast bird observatories

01 December 1954 Comments Main paper T H E spring migration on the East Coast of Britain in 1953 showed remarkably little pattern. All the Observatories reported a lean season without any notable " r u s h e s " of migrants. On April 6th there was a minor cyclonic drift movement to Fair Isle...

The pattern of migration in 1953 at the Irish Sea bird observatories

01 December 1954 Comments Main paper T H E present paper is based on reports published by the four southwestern Bird-Observatories, Bardsey, Great Saltee, Lundy, and Skokholm. These reports are restricted to a general description of the main movements of each species, and the field-seasons v...

Letters

01 December 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--In his paper on "The snail-eating behaviour of Thrushes and Blackbirds" (antea, p. 38) D. Morris states that "the snail-shell is held by the rim of its aperture," but I do not think that he can be right. If a bird holds the shell by its rim alone i...

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