Recent Reports and News

01 November 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...
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Letters

01 November 1960
Comments Letters "Kestrel pellets at a winter roost" Sirs,--I read with interest the paper by T. A. W. Davis on his examination of pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) at winter roosts in Pembrokeshire {Brit. Birds, 53: 281-284). May I, however, make one small correcti...
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Reviews

01 November 1960
Comments Reviews St. Kilda Summer. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Hutchinson, London, 1960. 224 p a g e s ; with photographs, drawings and maps. 25 s. For 27 years after its inhabitants had been evacuated at their own request, St. Kilda was visited only infrequ...
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Nocturnal migration of Thrushes

01 October 1953
Comments Main paper OBSERVATIONS on both day and night migrants, made near Dublin in the autumn of 1952, have already been briefly reported elsewhere (Browne, 1953). Two conclusions on the nocturnal migration of thrushes seem worthy of more detailed consideration. These are ...
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American Robin on Lundy

01 October 1953
Comments Main paper PETER DAVIS (Lundy Bird Observatory). (Plate 59) AN American Robin (Turdus migratorhis) was present on Lundy from October 27th to November 8th, 1952. It was probably first seen on October 25th, by one of the islanders.On the morning- of October 27th I fou...
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