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Bird foods and feeding-habits as subjects for Amateur research

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper I N THE STRAIGHT-FORWARD, descriptive natural history of any species, the food which it eats is an obvious item. T h e century and a half of scientific ornithology which has followed The Natural History of Selborne has seen the compilation of qualitative ...

Notes on Nesting Nightjars

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper THE following observations were made in late June and early July 1952-56, round Westleton in Suffolk, where Nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) breed not uncommonly on sandy heaths similar to those where I studied the species fifty miles N . N . W . , round...

Letters

01 July 1957 Comments Letters T H E C O L L E C T I O N O F R E C O R D S F O R ANALYSIS S I R S , -- Y o u r correspondent, Mr. T. C. Smout, raises issues of fundamental importance (antea, vol. xlix, pp. 287-288). If a paper is put forward for publication in a scientific form and pur...

Reviews

01 July 1957 Comments Reviews By MICHAEL LISTER. (Phoenix House, London, 1956). 256 pages. 45s. IT IS curious that The Bird Watcher's Reference Book should have appeared at about the same time as The Ornithologists' Guide (see antea, vol. xlix, p p . 504-505). Both have developed ind...

Notes

01 July 1957 Comments Notes 1956, a female Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) wearing a British Museum ring (941642) was recaptured in the decoy a t Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. She was accompanied by four ducklings, estimated to be four or five days old. This female was marked at Slimbri...

Further aircraft Observations of birds in flight

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper T H I S PAPER sets out observations of birds seen from aircraft (see Table I), subsequent to those published in my previous paper (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 59-70). AH observations are based on the same limitations and criteria of identification, height and...

Letter

01 February 1945 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference t o t h e letter from t h e Hon. G. Charteris (antea, p. 120), I can record three definite instances of Chaffinches having second broods. 1. I n 1938 a pair ringed b y me with coloured rings for identification nested in a holly just ...

Reviews

01 February 1945 Comments Reviews The Breeding Distribution, History and Population of the North Atlantic Gannet (Sola bassana). By James Fisher and H. G. Vevcrs. Part I.--A History of the G a n n e t s Colonies, and t h e Census in 1939. Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. xii, pp. 173-213, ...

Notes

01 February 1945 Comments Notes I HAVE recently been particularly interested in the behaviour of Marsh- and Coal-Tits, which together with larger numbers of Blue and Great Tits, have visited the garden here at Llanymynech during about the first three weeks of October, 1944. The garden,...

Common Sandpipers on Migration in South Glamorgan

01 February 1945 Comments Main paper THE Common Sandpiper {Actitis hypoleucos) is rather rare as a breeding species in Glamorgan, even in the northern half of the county, and has only once or twice been recorded as nesting in the southern half. Birds on passage in spring and autumn are numer...

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Bird foods and feeding-habits as subjects for Amateur research

Notes on Nesting Nightjars

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Further aircraft Observations of birds in flight

Letter

Reviews

Notes

Common Sandpipers on Migration in South Glamorgan

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