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Some radar measurements of the alitiude of bird flight

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01 October 1965 Comments News and comment Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve.--The Nature Conservancy have purchased 1,216 acres of sand dunes between Ainsdale and Formby on the Lanca shire coast and the area has now been statutorily declared as the Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Re...

Letters

01 October 1965 Comments Letters T h e w i n g pattern of the female Great Bustard Sirs,---In his recent article on 'Flight patterns of the European bus tards' (Brit. Birds, 58: 43-47), Philip J. Stead wrote with reference to the Great Bustard Otis tarda: 'The wing patterns of both sexes...

Notes

01 October 1965 Comments Notes Turnstone feeding on dead sheep.--On ist March 1964,8 day of heavy mist, we were walking along the shore at Steart Point, Somer set, when we came across the carcase of a sheep. A Carrion Crow Corvus corone and two Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinttsfl...

Studies of less familiar birds: 136. Red-breasted Flycatcher

01 October 1965 Comments Main paper central Europe through Russia and right across Siberia and northern Mongolia to Anadyr, Kamchatka and probably Sakhalin Island, with isolated populations in the Caucasus and northern Iran, and in the western Himalayas (Dementiev.and Gladkov 1954, Vaurie 1...

Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters on Skokholm

01 October 1965 Comments Main paper I N V A R I O U S P A P E R S , Dane, Miles and Stoker (1948-5 3) havedescribed a virus disease, puffinosis, which causes epizootics (animal epidemics) among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria (=T?uÃŸnH$) puffinus on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, I n the past...

Reviews

01 January 1945 Comments Reviews The Duck Decoys of Essex. By W. E. Glegg. Essex Naturalist, Vol. xxvii, 1943-4, PP- 191-207 and 211-225, MR. W. E . GLEGG in this scholarly paper brings up to date his extensive knowledge of t h e Essex decoys and includes an interesting account of the ar...

Notes

01 January 1945 Comments Notes reference to Capt. A. C. Fraser's note on this subject (antea, p. 94), I have the following note in my diary for December ioth, 1943 :-- Watched three Bullfinches (one male and two females) They were low down on Snowberry (Symphoricarpus) shrubs and at t...

Obituary: Jim Vincent (1883-1944)

01 January 1945 Comments Obituaries MANY of our readers will have learned with deep regret of the death of Jim Vincent, which took place at Norwich after a short illness on November 4th, As head keeper on Lord Desborough's Whiteslea estate at Hickling, Vincent was known to ornithologists al...

Departure of Swifts

01 January 1945 Comments Main paper THE arrival and departure of migrants are usually recorded by the dates upon which the first and last birds are seen. The arrival date of the first bird of any migrant species is usually fairly close to the arrival of the main bulk of that species : even ...

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Some radar measurements of the alitiude of bird flight

News and comment

Letters

Notes

Studies of less familiar birds: 136. Red-breasted Flycatcher

Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters on Skokholm

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: Jim Vincent (1883-1944)

Departure of Swifts

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