01 April 1971CommentsMain 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...
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01 April 1971CommentsMain 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 1971CommentsNews 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...
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01 April 1971CommentsLetters
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...
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01 April 1971CommentsNotes
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...
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01 April 1971CommentsOpen 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...
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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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