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01 June 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded a* authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers* names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Letters

01 June 1959 Comments Letters FEEDING METHODS O F LONG-TAILED LARGE F O O D TITS WITH S I R S , -- I was interested to read Mrs. J. Hall-Craggs's description, together with Mr. Derek Goodwin's comments, of Long-tailed Tits (Aegithalos candatus) eating largish morsels of food whilst ha...

Notes

01 June 1959 Comments Notes residence in Shetland we took counts about once a week for two years of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) on an area of cliffs in southwest Mainland. The counts are given in full and discussed in The Fulmar (1952) by James Fisher (pp. 347 and 482-488). These F...

The plumage and leg colour of the Kittiwake and comments on the non-breeding population

01 June 1959 Comments Main paper IT IS an advantage in ecological studies to be able to divide a population into age groups or into mature and immature stages In the Laridae (gulls and terns), where the majority of species have a distinctive " i m m a t u r e " plumage, it has been assum...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCVIII. Squacco Heron

01 June 1959 Comments Main paper T H E HERONS AND BITTERNS (Ardeidae) a r e a world-wide family of some fifty-nine species, and all b u t four of the fifteen in the Palaearctic have extensive breeding ranges that take them much or all of the way across Asia and Europe, while ten of these...

Migration notes from the Western approaches, Spring 1958

01 June 1959 Comments Main paper DURING THE MONTH from 13th April to 13th May 1958 the firstnamed author did a tour of duty as meteorologist at the ocean weather-reporting station " K i l o " in the W e s t e r n Approaches, at approximately latitude 45Â°N., longitude i 6 Â° W . This...

Editorial

01 June 1959 Comments Editorials FIFTY YEARS AGO our issue of i s t June 1909 began with an Editorial announcing " w i t h great satifaction" the names of two "excellent ornithologists" who would thenceforth assist in the task of editing the magazine. One of these was Dr. Norman F . Tice...

Letters

01 October 1950 Comments Letters --I am engaged in investigating t h e ringing records of Blue Tits. Amongst the known causes of death it is astonishing to find that the mousetrap is a principal one. I t may be necessary to place r a t and mouse traps in gardens, b u t I suggest that the...

Notes

01 October 1950 Comments Notes WITH reference to the note (antea, p. 54) on this topic, in June, 1949, an Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura) made repeated stoops at my companion, Dr. H. K. Whitehouse, while he was standing by the bank of the river in Hvalfjordur a few yards from our camp in...

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper A CENSUS of cliff-nesting seabirds is usually carried out by making a careful count of every occupied nest, thus giving the number of breeding pairs. This is the most accurate method and can be carried out comparatively easily in the case of species that ...

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Recent reports and News

Letters

Notes

The plumage and leg colour of the Kittiwake and comments on the non-breeding population

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCVIII. Squacco Heron

Migration notes from the Western approaches, Spring 1958

Editorial

Letters

Notes

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

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