Recent Reports and News

01 October 1960
Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not he 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...
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Reviews

01 October 1960
Comments Reviews The Voices of Wild Birds in Nature (recordings). Recorded by Boris N . Weprinezev. Published by the Ail-Union Studio of Disc Recordings (No. 6227/8), i960, and to be obtainable through Collets Record Shop, 70 N e w Oxford Street, London, W.C.i. Price prob...
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Notes

01 October 1960
Comments Notes Little Ringed Plover "foot-tapping" to collect food.--On 2nd April i960, at a reservoir near the Suffolk coast, I watched a Little Ringed Plover {Charadrius dubius) feeding on the muddy bottom of a drained pond. It was tripping methodically around and eve...
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50th Anniversary messages

01 June 1957
Comments Main paper FURTHER to mark our 50 years of continuous publication, we invited comments from a number of distinguished ornithologists, chiefly Editors of other journals, both in this country and abroad. Below, we print a selection of the replies we received.From M. l...
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Editorial: The First Fifty Years

01 June 1957
Comments Editorials Witherby approached many friends and fellow-ornithologists to support a monthly magazine devoted entirely to the study of British birds, which had long been in his mind. A note in his handwriting records how, at the British Ornithologists' Club that Janu...
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Notes

01 June 1957
Comments Notes have asked me to comment briefly on the remarkable photograph of the Penguin-dance of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) published in this issue (plate 48). Comparatively few observers have been fortunate enough to "witness this elaborate form o...
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