01 September 1962CommentsReviews
Identification for Ringers: 2. T h e Genus Phylloscopus. By Kenneth Williamson. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, 1962. 86 pages; 1 colour and 4 monochrome plates. 7s. There are now about a thousand ringers in Britain. Many of these are trained and l...
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01 September 1962CommentsNotes
Shelduck moulting in breeding area.--On 9th July 1961, in an area of extensive fresh grazing marshes in north Kent, I noticed an adult male Shelduck (Tadorna tadornd) swimming along the edge of a large fleet. The knob on its bill had regressed, but it was...
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01 September 1962CommentsMain paper
mbulosd) by Oscar Moberg were published in British Birds in 1956 (49: plates 1-3), but the remarkable flight pictures by Hilding Mickelsson and Goran Hansson n o w reproduced o n plates 60 and 61 more than justify the species being included in this series...
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01 September 1962CommentsMain paper
Research Laboratories of Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy Co. Ltd., at Great Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, have taken films of a radar display by time-lapse photography and many of these provide a clear record of bird migration; some were shown at the British O...
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01 September 1962CommentsMain paper
during eclipses of the sun, when light intensities may be lower than those which inhibit feeding and other regular activities on normal evenings. This short paper therefore sets out to record some observations which my wife and I made on a pair of Pied Fl...
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01 June 1907CommentsEditorials
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...
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01 June 1907CommentsMain 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...
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01 June 1907CommentsMain 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...
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