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Seasonal reports: spring 1990

01 December 1990 Comments Main paper March was dominated by southwesterly winds, at times very strong, which maintained temperatures well above normal. It was very wet over northern England and most of Scotland, but, in contrast, southern England received only 10% of normal rainfall. It w... Read More

Seventy-five years agoÉ

01 December 1990 Comments Other 'FECUNDITY OF THE HOUSE-SPARROW. LAST year I contributed some observations (Brit. Birds, VIII., p. 114) showing the amazing fecundity of certain pairs of House-Sparrows (Passer d. domesticus) occupying (much to my disgust) a number of nesting-boxes I p... Read More

Recent reports and news

01 June 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgement alone, from sources generallyfound to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp... Read More

Some notes on the Rufous Warbler

01 June 1960 Comments Main paper T H I S P A P E R is based primarily on observations made from May to October 1958 at Khanaqin in eastern Iraq, a border town on the banks of the Alwand River in the foothills of the Jebel Hamrin Mountains, about 90 miles north-east of Baghdad. When I arr... Read More