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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...

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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...

Letters

01 September 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--I read with great interest the paper by Desmond Morris (antea, pp. 33-49) and the subsequent letter by A. J. Bruce (antea, p. 215) in which this subject is discussed. Bruce's theory, that a thrush (Turdus sp.) cannot afford to use its feet owing to...

Reviews

01 September 1954 Comments Reviews Report on Somerset Birds, 1952: 39ft Report of the Ornithological Section of the Somersetshire Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. Obtainable from G. H. E. Young, Bank House, Martock, Somerset. 5s. Ornithological Notes, Bristol District, 1952. Edited by H. H. Davis...

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01 September 1954 Comments Reviews Birds as Animals, i. A History of Birds. By James Fisher (Hutchinson's University Library, London, 1954). 8s. 6d. THIS book is based on the author's previously published Birds as- Animals (Heinemann, 1939), but is a completely revised and rewritten versio...

Notes

01 September 1954 Comments Notes to be a female, was seen on several occasions between November 6th, 1953, and January 2nd, 1954, by Mr. B. Winchester at the Layer Breton end of Abberton Reservoir, Essex. On December .21st it was also seen by Messrs. P . J. Fenning and R. King. Close vie...

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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

Letters

Reviews

Reviews

Notes

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