01 September 1974CommentsNews and comment
These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated recordsIn England and Wales divers are of very irregular occurrence in June. Two Great Northern Divers Garia immer were at Spurn (Yorkshire) on 12th; at Seaton Sluice (Northumberland) a...
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01 September 1974CommentsNews and comment
Dockland bird reserveThe Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has revealed that it has acquired, on a 21-year lease, 200 hectares of marsh to the east of Goole, Yorkshire, known as Blacktoft Sands; this land is owned by the British Transpor...
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01 September 1974CommentsEditorials
Colour-ringed Great Black-backed GullsA three-year study of the feeding ecology of the Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus during 1974-76 includes the colour-ringing of some 3,600 nestlings at breeding colonies in Orkney with a two-colour comb...
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01 September 1974CommentsLetters
Melanism in shearwaters and auksSince Bryan L. Sage (Brit. Birds, 65: 527) comments on the supposed rarity of melanism in Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus and indeed the Procellariiformes in general, it may be worth pointing out that a dark sp...
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01 September 1974CommentsNotes
Great Spotted Woodpecker tapping on window paneAt 5.30 am on 10th June 1974 I was wakened by a loud tapping on the bedroom window of my house at Bow Brickhill, Buckinghamshire. After three or four taps I drew back the curtains and saw a Great Sp...
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01 September 1974CommentsMain paper
The Crag Martin Hirundo rupestris is a southern Palearctic species which is generally sedentary, occasionally wandering a little in winter; it is more migratory in the northern parts of its range (Cramp 1970). In Europe it breeds from Iberia through so...
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01 September 1974CommentsMain paper
The Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina, so characteristic of the cultivated parklands and town parks of central and eastern Europe, is named by virtue of its general coloration from the Greek ikteros, meaning 'jaundice' or 'a greenish-yellow bird'. Th...
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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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