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01 January 1966 Comments News and comment Change in chairmanship of Bird Ringing Committee.---The retirement of Sir Landsborough Thomson as chairman of the Ringing and Migration Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology marks the end of an association which goes back to the very beginning of...

Letters

01 January 1966 Comments Letters Birds trapped by sludge or m u d Sirs,--I was most interested to read the note by G. L. Webber {Brit. Birds, 5 8: 296-297) on 'Birds trapped by sludge on a sewage farm'. I have found at Freckleton sewage farm and various other sites in Lancashire, includi...

Reviews

01 January 1966 Comments Reviews The Life of the Robin. By David Lack. Drawings by Robert Gillmor. Witherby, London, 1965 (revised edition). 240 pages; numerous line drawings. 30s. Of the scientific bird books published in the last 2 5 years, The Life of the Robin is surely the most read...

Notes

01 January 1966 Comments Notes Heron swallowing female Blackbird.--In early September 1965 a late brood of three young Herons Ardea cinerea seemingly feil from their nest in the grounds of Viewfield House, near Portree, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire. They appeared on the lawn where Col...

New Palearctic bird sound recordings in 1964-65

01 January 1966 Comments Main paper of this paper is to add another year to my discography of Palearctic bird sound recordings which listed all the relevant gramophone records known to have been published up to mid-i9Ã-4 (Boswall 1964b). It reviews the additional records and tape-records w...

Great Bustards in Portugal

01 January 1966 Comments Main paper Portugal is still one of the least explored countries in Europe and a visit to any part may be most rewarding. Nevertheless, until my experiences of the last few years, I would not have chosen to go there to study and photograph the Great Bustard Otis tar...

Some mutations of the Partridge and Red-legged Partridge

01 January 1966 Comments Main paper Red-legged Partridges Alectoris rufa, which is known as ornata (Soler 1906) and is very rare, and the other in Partridges Perdix perdix, which is known as montana (Brisson 1760) and was formerly widespread and not uncommon but is apparently now rare. Well...

An analysis of recoveries of Great Skuas ringed in Shetland

01 January 1966 Comments Main paper T H E P U R P O S E of this paper is to analyse the results of ringing chicks of the Great Skua Catharacta skua at its breeding colonies in the Shetland Islands, lying N N E of the mainland of Scotland. Up to and including 1964 a total of 5,628 Great Skua...

News and comment

01 November 1965 Comments News and comment More news of contamination by toxic chemicals.--The Fifth Report of the Joint Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on Toxic Chemicals, published in September, shows that in the chemical analysis ...

Requests for information

01 November 1965 Comments Editorials Irruption of Waxwings.--Waxwings Bombycilk garrulus began to appear on the east coast of Britain about 14th October 1965, and on the 17th there were 30 on Fair Isle (Shetland). On the 19th 300 were seen at Holkham (Norfolk) and between then and the end of...

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New Palearctic bird sound recordings in 1964-65

Great Bustards in Portugal

Some mutations of the Partridge and Red-legged Partridge

An analysis of recoveries of Great Skuas ringed in Shetland

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