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Studies of less familiar birds 110. Grey-rumped Sandpiper

01 January 1961 Comments Main paper rumped Sandpiper (Tringa brevipes)* because it inhabits the remotest and wildest mountains of north-eastern Siberia. During the last few years, however, observations have been made by A.V.K., V. I. Kapitonov, K. A. Vorobiev and A. P. Vaskovski, and the fo...

Four invasions of Waxwings during 1956-60

01 January 1961 Comments Main paper T H E W A X W I N G (Bombycilla garrulus) has a Holarctic breeding distribution in the boreal zone (see Fig. i) reaching the July isotherm of 50Â° F and extending from Fenno-Scandia right across the Eurasian land-mass and into north-western America. The...

Recent reports and news

01 January 1961 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...

Reviews

01 January 1961 Comments Reviews T h e Eleventh Annual Report of the Wildfowl Trust. Edited by H u g h Boyd and Peter Scott. Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, i960. 168 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 10s. The Wildfowl Trust's Annual Report contains, as usual, a varied assortment of news of the collect...

Notes

01 January 1961 Comments Notes Little Shearwater in Norfolk.--On ist May i960 we found a freshly dead shearwater on the beach between Cley and Blakeney Point, Norfolk. It was in good condition but for the left carpal joint, which was bare to the bone. The bird was black above and white...

Foot-movements in plovers and other birds

01 January 1961 Comments Main paper W A D E R S S H O W many striking adaptations in behaviour and structure which enable them to obtain their food. In particular, several types of foot-movements have been evolved and this short paper sketches, informally, something of what is known about t...

Letter

01 March 1945 Comments Letters SIRS,--I am collecting all the information I can on clutch size and nesting success in the Robin (Erithacus rubecula), and should be very grateful for any unpublished information which readers could supply. Every nest record is of value, both from Britain...

Reviews

01 March 1945 Comments Reviews Ornithological Report for Northumberland and Durham for 1943. Compiled by G. W. Temperley (The Naturalist, July-September, 1944). I N spite of war-time curtailment of opportunities for bird observation this carefully compiled report contains a noteworthy...

Notes

01 March 1945 Comments Notes IN reference to Mr. David Lack's note on Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula) singing in London at the end of January (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p. 116), in some parts of London such as Kensington, where there are many houses with gardens, it is quite exceptional fo...

Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper O N August 7th, 1944, while studying birds on the salt-marsh round Tetney Creek, Lines., on the Humber estuary, I observed two or three smallish diving-duck which puzzled me ; and on August 8th, independently, S/Ldr. Peter Hill saw the birds in the same p...

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Studies of less familiar birds 110. Grey-rumped Sandpiper

Four invasions of Waxwings during 1956-60

Recent reports and news

Reviews

Notes

Foot-movements in plovers and other birds

Letter

Reviews

Notes

Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

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