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01 May 1957 Comments Notes Vagrants at Skokholm in September 1956.--At Skokholm the period gth-i2th September 1956 was one of outstanding interest, with consid'erable variety of common migrants and four species which are major rarities in Wales. T w o juvenile Ortolan Buntings (Emb...

Field-notes on some birds of South-East Europe: LXXXI. Ortolan Bunting

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper T H E S E notes are compiled from field-observations made by the writers in south-east Europe in the autumn of 1956. W e travelled via Venice and the Adriatic (28th August-2nd September), through Greece (Athens, 3rd-5th September; Delphi, 6th-8th Septembe...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper Photographed by K. (Plates 33-35) only a vagrant in Britain, the Ortolan Bunting (Emberisa hortulana) has a wide distribution in the Palaearctic region, breeding in most parts of Continental Europe from Spain in the south to the arctic circle in the north...

The past and present status of the Buzzard in the British Isles

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper MYXOMATOSIS spread from the Continent of Europe to the British Isles late in the summer of 1953. The Buzzard (Buteo buteo), which was known to feed extensively on Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), was likely to be indirectly affected by the disease, so tha...

Reviews

01 May 1957 Comments Reviews By a Committee of the London Natural History Society (Chairman: R. C. Homes). (Collins, London, 1957). 305 pages, 40 photographs, 5 maps. 30s. O F THE MANY and varied ways in which man has stamped his history and methods of life upon the surface of the w...

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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