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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...

Letter

01 September 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--In t h e course of a study of t h e breeding population of Oystercatchers (Hmmatopus ostralegms occidenialis) on the islands of Skomer and Skokholm this year we have ringed a number of chicks with coloured rings. Though the main purpose of this has...

Notes

01 September 1946 Comments Notes THE habit of sun-bathing by passerine birds.is discussed in a note by T. S. Williams (antea, p. 152). As indicated in the Editorial comment thereto this is probably commoner than at first sight appears to be the case. To the list of species given I can a...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. VI. The Griffon Vulture

01 September 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 31-35). THE Griffon Vulture (Gyps f.fulvus), of which species a single immature example was captured near Cork in 1843 and others have been reliably reported as seen on two occasions in England, has in recent years become almost, if not quite, ext...

Some further Notes from the North Atlantic

01 September 1946 Comments Main paper (with chart). SINCE the publication in 1928 of the writer's " Bird Notes from the North Atlantic " (Brit. Birds, Vol. xxii, pp. 122-133) and of "An Ornithological Transect of the North Atlantic" (Brit. Birds, Vol. xxiv, pp. 266-274), much has been done to...

Do juvenile birds survive less than adults

01 September 1946 Comments Main paper FARNER (1945} has estimated the age and survival of the American Robin (Turdus migratorius) from ringing (banding) returns, by the method used by the present writer for various British species (Lack, 1943). Farner's conclusions agree closely with mine exc...

Some breeding habits of the Sparrowhawk

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Notes

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

Radar evidence on migratory orientation

River Warbler on Fair Isle: a bird new to Britain

Letter

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. VI. The Griffon Vulture

Some further Notes from the North Atlantic

Do juvenile birds survive less than adults

Some breeding habits of the Sparrowhawk

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