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01 April 1971 Comments Main paper Plates 21-28 This is the twelfth annual selection of contemporary photography. The final choice of 13 was made from a short-list of nearly 100 prints, some of which had been submitted individually and others gathered and initially sifted by the honorary s...

Report on bird-ringing for 1969

01 April 1971 Comments Main paper Although scarcely a year has passed without the introduction of some new feature or embellishment, the basic composition of the 'Report on bird-ringing' has remained unchanged for about 15 years. It has indeed grown in size from some 36 to 48 or more page...

News and comment

01 April 1971 Comments News and comment enquiries into churchyard birds . . . Churchyards are small in extent, but there are many of them and they are widely dispersed. They constitute a distinctive type of habitat, being islands of well-spaced trees and shrubs (mainly coniferous) that general...

Letters

01 April 1971 Comments Letters Further notes on Nutcracker In 1968 and 1969 In my paper on the invasion of Nutcrackers Nmfrttga catyecatactes in autumn 1968 (Brit. Birds, 63: $53-373), I inadvertently omitted a reference to Norway from the brief national summaries of the situation in c...

Notes

01 April 1971 Comments Notes Common Sandpiper eating apple On 20th June 1970 I was sitting in a car by a small loch in Ross-shire when two Common Sandpipers Tringa hypoltmos came foraging close. One of them discovered a portion of apple and, one by one, broke off and swallowed severa...

Evening Grosbeak on St Kilda: a species new to Britain and Ireland

01 April 1971 Comments Open Access At 10.00 hours on 26th March 1969, in the old village on Hirta, St Kilda, I heard an unfamiliar call, which I noted as a metallic 'jink'. It came from a small bird perched on a dry-stone dyke and even at a range of 200 metres, using 8 x binoculars in e...

Letter

01 September 1943 Comments Letters SIRS --It was with very great interest t h a t I read the articles on incubation in the June and July numbers by Col. Ryves and Mr. Tucker. From reading these articles I realised t h a t I must have had a quite unique experience regarding incubation by th...

Notes

01 September 1943 Comments Notes DURING the last year I have been able to pay regular visits to the Sewage Farm just outside the town of Bedford and amongst the many birds seen, the following seem worthy of note. I am grateful to Mr. B. O. Clifford and Mr. A. J. Swain for providing me wi...

Nest-Site Selection by birds

01 September 1943 Comments Main paper T H E late F . C. R. Jourdain writing on " Our Present Knowledge of the Breeding-Biology of B i r d s " (antea, Vol. xxiv, p. 135) remarked : "Every detail of the life of the bird is important. For example most valuable and interesting light is thrown on ...

The Migration of the Sandwich Tern

01 September 1943 Comments Main paper the period 1909-1942 young of the Sandwich Tern (Sterna s. sanivicensis) were ringed in the British Isles to the number of 17,987. Three colonies on the north coast of Norfolk have together made the largest contribution to this total, followed in order of...

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More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

Report on bird-ringing for 1969

News and comment

Letters

Notes

Evening Grosbeak on St Kilda: a species new to Britain and Ireland

Letter

Notes

Nest-Site Selection by birds

The Migration of the Sandwich Tern

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