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The new protection of birds act

01 December 1954 Comments Main paper LONG after those who originally conceived it have died of old age or frustration, the Protection of Birds Act, 1954, came into force on December 1st, bringing to an end well over thirty years of miserable procrastination and repealing the whole of no les...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds, LXII. Snowy Owl

01 December 1954 Comments Main paper (Plates 69-72). As these photographs well show, the Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca) is an impressive creature, the adult male (plate 72) being white or creamy-white, sometimes unmarked or practically so and at most having only sparse scattering of bars and s...

The pattern of migration in 1953 at the East coast bird observatories

01 December 1954 Comments Main paper T H E spring migration on the East Coast of Britain in 1953 showed remarkably little pattern. All the Observatories reported a lean season without any notable " r u s h e s " of migrants. On April 6th there was a minor cyclonic drift movement to Fair Isle...

The pattern of migration in 1953 at the Irish Sea bird observatories

01 December 1954 Comments Main paper T H E present paper is based on reports published by the four southwestern Bird-Observatories, Bardsey, Great Saltee, Lundy, and Skokholm. These reports are restricted to a general description of the main movements of each species, and the field-seasons v...

Letters

01 December 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--In his paper on "The snail-eating behaviour of Thrushes and Blackbirds" (antea, p. 38) D. Morris states that "the snail-shell is held by the rim of its aperture," but I do not think that he can be right. If a bird holds the shell by its rim alone i...

Reviews

01 December 1954 Comments Reviews The Birds of the British Isles. By D. A. Bannerman and G. E. Lodge. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1954). Vol. 3. 45s. THIS third volume completes the Passerines, covering the warblers, thrushes, chats, nightingales, Robin etc., wrens and swallows in the same...

Notes

01 December 1954 Comments Notes Co. Wexford.--Following a period of easterly winds in May, 1953, several notable rarities occurred at Great Saltee, Co. Wexford. Among these were two additions to the Irish List--a Nightingale (Luscinia megarhyncha) and a Tawny Pipit (Anthns campestris), ...

The migration of the Iceland Merlin

01 December 1954 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory). T H E large size of the Merlins (Falco columbarins) trapped when on passage at Fair Isle in 1950-1951 led me to doubt the statement in The Handbook (Vol. I l l , p . 23) that resident British birds are augmented in autumn by ...

Letter

01 September 1943 Comments Letters SIRS --It was with very great interest t h a t I read the articles on incubation in the June and July numbers by Col. Ryves and Mr. Tucker. From reading these articles I realised t h a t I must have had a quite unique experience regarding incubation by th...

Notes

01 September 1943 Comments Notes DURING the last year I have been able to pay regular visits to the Sewage Farm just outside the town of Bedford and amongst the many birds seen, the following seem worthy of note. I am grateful to Mr. B. O. Clifford and Mr. A. J. Swain for providing me wi...

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The new protection of birds act

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds, LXII. Snowy Owl

The pattern of migration in 1953 at the East coast bird observatories

The pattern of migration in 1953 at the Irish Sea bird observatories

Letters

Reviews

Notes

The migration of the Iceland Merlin

Letter

Notes

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