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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...

Recovery of marked birds

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper Rawdon (Yorks), 24.4.37, by Bramhope (Yorks), 15.7.37. C. Wontner-Smith. Ditto 4-S-37- Allerton (Yorks), 13.8.37. Stodmarsh (Kent), 16.4.33, by Where ringed, --.9.37. Oxford Orn. Soc. R I N G E D AS FULL-GROWN. Gt. Budworth (Ches), 17.7.35, Acton Bridge ...

Birds seen in two winter transects of the North Atlantic

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper bird-counts of the North Atlantic crossing have already appeared, and in these the significance of the figures has been fully discussed. The most comprehensive is by V. C. Wynne-Edwards (Proc. Boston Soc, Nat. Hist., Vol. XL., No. 4, pp. 233-346. January,...

Notes on the Gannetries of Sule Stack and Sula Sgeir

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper (Plate I I . ) IT may be safely said that in a quarter of a century no new information has been added to our previous knowledge of the gannetry of Sule Stack, and with the exception of my notes on Sula Sgeir [10]* these same remarks apply to this latter g...

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