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Request for information Committee on toxic chemicals

01 September 1960 Comments Editorials A Joint Committee of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology has now been formed, under the Chairmanship of Stanley Cramp, to study the effects of toxic chemicals on birds. The Committee is anxious to obtain any...

Recent Reports and News

01 September 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as 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...

Notes

01 September 1960 Comments Notes Curlew Sandpipers wintering in Lancashire.--On 2nd January i960, I saw a Curlew Sandpiper {Calidris testacea) on the mud-flats of the Ribble Estuary at Lytham, Lancashire. O n 12th February there were three there and from then until April up to six were s...

Studies of less familiar birds 106. Lesser Grey Shrike

01 September 1960 Comments Main paper only 22 records of the Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanitts minor) in the British Isles were admitted and five of those cannot now be accepted. Only 17 Lesser Grey Shrikes in nearly a hundred years since the first was identified in 1842--yet from the autumn of 195...

Nearctic birds in Great Britain and Ireland in autumn 1958

01 September 1960 Comments Main paper vagrant birds from across the Atlantic appeared in Great Britain and Ireland. The species involved included ones with normal distributions ranging from western Greenland and arctic Canada south to the eastern United States and Florida. Shorebirds and wate...

Report of the bird-ringing committee: progress for 1937

01 April 1938 Comments Main paper the period now under review, on June ist, 1937, the control of the former British Birds Marking Scheme was transferred to the Bird-Ringing Committee appointed for the purpose by the British Trust for Ornithology, under arrangements which have already been...

The index of Heron population, 1937

01 April 1938 Comments Main paper FOR the fourth year in succession* we were able in 1937 to keep accurate record of the fortunes of a large part of the breeding population of Herons {Ardea c. cinerea). It can hardly be said that the results have been dramatic. In England and Wales as a w...

Black Redstart breeding in an Eastern county of England

01 April 1938 Comments Main paper (Plate 13.) IT is only comparatively recently that the breeding of the Black Redstart (Phtznicurus 0. gibraltariensis) in the British Isles has been authentically recorded. During the spring and summer of 1937 a number of observers had the good fortune to...

Letters

01 April 1938 Comments Letters SIRS,--Since a t one or two widely separated localities in t h e Midlands this bird appears t o be on t h e increase, a n d in places is actually re-establishing itself after years of absence, i t h a s been thought desirable t o hold a thorough inquiry i...

Reviews

01 April 1938 Comments Reviews Handbuch der Deutschen Vogelkunde. Edited by G. Niethammer. Bd. i . Passeres (Leipzig : Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1937). T H E late Ernst Hartert was so impressed with t h e plan of the Practical Handbook t h a t after this had been taken in hand h...

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