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01 April 1962 Comments Notes Little Grebes attacking Moorhens.--With regard to the recent note by J. B. and S, Bottomley on Little Grebes {Podiceps ruficollis) attacking Coots (Fulica atra) and domestic ducks {Anas sp.) {Brit. Birds, 54: 427), it seems worth reporting that I saw seve...

Studies of less familiar birds 118. Rock Bunting and Rock Sparrow

01 April 1962 Comments Main paper country. T h e earliest record is of t w o netted by' bird-catchers in late October 1902 near Shoreham, Sussex, and these were followed by one seen at Faversham, Kent, in mid-February 1905; then, after aninterval of over fifty years without any report whi...

Radar evidence on migratory orientation

01 April 1962 Comments Main paper ing so rapidly that this may be a useful time at which to review evidence on the orientation of bird migrants over the sea provided by radar. This evidence requires local knowledge for its interpretation and, since even with local knowledge I have made mi...

River Warbler on Fair Isle: a bird new to Britain

01 April 1962 Comments Main paper A F I R S T - W I N T E R River Warbler (Locustel/a fluviatilis) was trapped at Fair Isle on 24th September 1961, and seen again on the following day. This is the first record of this east European species in the British Isles, although it breeds as ne...

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Editorial

01 June 1907 Comments Editorials EDITED BY H. F. WITHERBY, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.ASSISTED BY W. P. PYCRAFT, A.L.S, M.B.O.U. EDITORIAL.BEFORE setting forth our plans, our hopes, and our ambitions for BRITISH BIRDS, we must first expr...

ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS SINCE 1899

01 June 1907 Comments Main paper HOWARD SAUNDERS.FOR the readers of BRITISH BIRDS I have been asked to supply an outline of the accessions to the British List since the completion of the 2nd edition of my " Illustrated Manual of British Birds," in 1899. Even duri...

A STUDY OF THE HOME LIFE OF THE OSPREY

01 June 1907 Comments Main paper IT is perhaps fitting that the first number of BRITISH BIBDS should, contain an account of a "bird which, as a breeding species in these islands, is reduced to a solitary pair or so. Of such is the heritage of the modern ornithologist! What&n...

REMARKS ON A SUPPOSED NEW BRITISH TIT OF THE GENUS PARUS

01 June 1907 Comments Main paper MR. HOWARD SAOTBERS, In his " Manual of British Birds," includes five species of true Parus in the British Avifauna, namely, Parus major, P. ater, P. palustris, P. cosruleus, and P. cristatus....

NESTING HABITS OBSERVED ABROAD OF SOME RARE BRITISH BIRDS. Part 1

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