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01 April 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writer's judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted in case a report ...

Request for information

01 April 1958 Comments Editorials THE 1957 IRRUPTIONS OF TITS A N D OTHER SPECIES : INTERIM REPORT In view of the great interest in the irruptions of tits (Parus spp.) and certain other birds in the autumn of 1957 (antea, p. 130; and vol. L, pp. 495 and 542), we asked the organizers of th...

Letters

01 April 1958 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I should be most grateful if anyone who has any specimens of flatflies (Hippoboscidae), taken from birds, would lend or give them to me for examination connected with my research at the D e p a r t m e n t of Zoology, University of Hull, Yor...

Notes

01 April 1958 Comments Notes Fish-hook in Heron's pellet.--In March 1956 Tom Schutte brought me the pellet of a Heron (Ardea cinerea) that he had found on the 4th of that month, by the River Beane at Waterford, Hertfordshire. It was composed almost entirely of fur (? W a t e r Vole, ...

Waders at Ocean weather ships in 1956

01 April 1958 Comments Main paper DURING 1956 the first-named author was at sea for long periods as a member of the scientific staff of the Marine Section of the Meteorological Office (Air Ministry). Many observations were made on the occurrence of migratory birds in the vicinity of the s...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXVII. Scops Owl

01 April 1958 Comments Main paper ONE OF THE characteristic spring and summer sounds of parts of southern Europe is the musical, yet monotonous, low single whistle which forms the song of the Scops Owl (Otus scops). On a warm evening in the south of France one can often hear, at one time,...

Observations on the feeding of the Oystercatcher in Captivity

01 April 1958 Comments Main paper (Fisheries Experiment Station,; Conway) ESTIMATES of the food intake of the Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) have been made in the field in the past three years (Drinnan, 1956, 1957). These have yielded results consistently higher than food intakes r...

Telescopes and binoculars: Some recent improvements in design and their value for bird-watching

01 April 1958 Comments Main paper FIELD-ORNITHOLOGY owes much to modern optieal aids, but until very lately the improvement has been concentrated almost entirely on binoculars. Telescope-makers appeared to cling to the belief that what was good enough for Nelson was quite good enough for ...

Letters

01 December 1950 Comments Letters SIRS,---A note recently published in British Birds (antea, p. 89) commenting on the presence of Bewick's Swans a t Malltraeth, suggests t h a t the status of this species in Anglesey is t h a t of a n occasional visitor. These birds are, however, more reg...

Review

01 December 1950 Comments Reviews Robin Redbreast. By David Lack. (Oxford University Press ; L o n d o n : Geoffrey Cumberlege. 15/-). In this volume, which appears to be a by-product of his earlier work and is a sort of ornithological jeu d'esprit, Dr. Lack deals with the " unnatural h i...

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Recent reports and news

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Waders at Ocean weather ships in 1956

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: LXXXVII. Scops Owl

Observations on the feeding of the Oystercatcher in Captivity

Telescopes and binoculars: Some recent improvements in design and their value for bird-watching

Letters

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