Reviews

01 September 1961
Comments Reviews The Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh. By H . Albert Hochbaum. Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, U.S.A., 1959 (second edition). 207 pages; 18 photographs. $4.50. Originally published towards the end of the 1939-45 war, this was the first of a series of authorita...
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Notes

01 September 1961
Comments Notes Manx Shearwater d i g g i n g by daylight.--At about 2.30 p.m. on 15th May 1961, I was walking in bright sunlight on a sloping cliff on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, when I heard a Manx Shearwater (Procellaria puffinus) calling from its burrow. Kneeling down w...
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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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