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01 May 1957 Comments Notes Vagrants at Skokholm in September 1956.--At Skokholm the period gth-i2th September 1956 was one of outstanding interest, with consid'erable variety of common migrants and four species which are major rarities in Wales. T w o juvenile Ortolan Buntings (Emb...

Field-notes on some birds of South-East Europe: LXXXI. Ortolan Bunting

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper T H E S E notes are compiled from field-observations made by the writers in south-east Europe in the autumn of 1956. W e travelled via Venice and the Adriatic (28th August-2nd September), through Greece (Athens, 3rd-5th September; Delphi, 6th-8th Septembe...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper Photographed by K. (Plates 33-35) only a vagrant in Britain, the Ortolan Bunting (Emberisa hortulana) has a wide distribution in the Palaearctic region, breeding in most parts of Continental Europe from Spain in the south to the arctic circle in the north...

The past and present status of the Buzzard in the British Isles

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper MYXOMATOSIS spread from the Continent of Europe to the British Isles late in the summer of 1953. The Buzzard (Buteo buteo), which was known to feed extensively on Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), was likely to be indirectly affected by the disease, so tha...

Reviews

01 May 1957 Comments Reviews By a Committee of the London Natural History Society (Chairman: R. C. Homes). (Collins, London, 1957). 305 pages, 40 photographs, 5 maps. 30s. O F THE MANY and varied ways in which man has stamped his history and methods of life upon the surface of the w...

Mortality of Adult and Young Mallards

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper A RECENT examination of the recovery data of Mallards (Anas p. platyrhyncha) ringed under the British Birds marking scheme, from its inception up to 1946, yielded no information as regards migration which was in any way additional to the excellent summary...

Tits and Peanuts

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper DURING the hard weather in February, 1947, my wife and 1 found a small cache of peanuts, preserved in the house since 1939, when we had been in the habit of stringing these together and hanging them up for the tits. On February 12th, therefore, I hung up...

"Plover's Page" Behaviour of Dunlin

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper O N May 3rd, 1931, a sunny day with a fresh N . W . wind, I was on the sea-wall between Marshside and Crossens, on the south side of the Ribble Estuary. On rough pastureland behind the sea-wall a flock of fully 500 Golden Plovers (Pluvialis a. apricaria)...

Agressive display of the Oyster-catcher

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"Smoke-bathing" of Starling and of Herring- and Black-headed Gulls