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01 December 1963 Comments Notes my last note on the recovery of Starlings marked at Bradfield, Berkshire (Brit. Birds, VI., p. 13), twenty-five captures have to be recorded. Only two of these occurred abroad, or indeed more than five miles from the place where they were ringed, viz. :-...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 December 1963 Comments Main paper T H E following have kindly sent Â· in subscriptions towards t h e expenses of the Marking Scheme since the last acknowledgment was made : Messrs. A. E . Aldous, J. S. Allison, C. F . Archibald, A. BanKes, R. M. Barrington, K. O. Blyth, P. A. Buxton, t ...

Snipe and Redshank Nesting in Sussex

01 December 1963 Comments Main paper in Ms excellent work The Birds of Sussex, published nearly a quarter of a century ago, thus summarizes the status of the Common Snipe in the county as a breeding species : " The Snipe breeds sparingly in Sussex, b u t the nest has been found now and then ...

Requests for information

01 May 1962 Comments Editorials Wreck of Fulmars in February and March 1962.--Unusual numbers of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) were noted close inshore on various parts of the east coast during February, In some areas a high proportion were of dark or intermediate phases. During the next...

Letters

01 May 1962 Comments Letters Ringed birds in snow Sirs,--During the snowy period of early January 1962, in my garden sanctuary near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, I saw two ringed birds, a Blue Tit (Pants caerukus) and a Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus), with their rings thickly coated ...

Reviews

01 May 1962 Comments Reviews Deaths of birds and mammals from toxic chemicals, January-June 1961. T h e second report of the Joint Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on T o x i c Chemicals, i n collaboration with the Game ...

Notes

01 May 1962 Comments Notes Wilson's Phalarope in Cornwall.--Early on the morning of 15 th June 1961 J.E.B. came across an unfamiliar medium-sized wader with plain brown upper-parts and a dull white rump and tail, on Marazion Marsh, Cornwall. He contacted Dr. G. Allsop and between t...

Obituary: Alfred Hazelwood (1913-1961)

01 May 1962 Comments Obituaries A L F R E D H A Z E L W O O D died on 7th December 1961 at Bradshaw, near Bolton, Lancashire. He had returned home on Z3rd November after spending five weeks at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, where his condition had been found to be inoperable. Born at D...

Mortality and weights of Fieldfares in Anglesey in January 1962

01 May 1962 Comments Main paper F I E L D F A R E S (Tarduspilaris) are regular winter visitors to Anglesey as a whole, and in mid-October 1961 large numbers of these and other thrushes arrived in the county. Sightings of Fieldfares on Newborough Warren National Nature Reserve and in th...

Recent changes in the habits of the Kittiwake

01 May 1962 Comments Main paper K I T T I W A K E S (Rissa iridactyla) are relatively specialised gulls; not only are they adapted to nesting on small rock ledges on precipitous cliff faces (see Cullen 1957), but they are probably the most oceanic of the gulls outside the breeding seaso...

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Notes

Recovery of Marked Birds

Snipe and Redshank Nesting in Sussex

Requests for information

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: Alfred Hazelwood (1913-1961)

Mortality and weights of Fieldfares in Anglesey in January 1962

Recent changes in the habits of the Kittiwake

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