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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...

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LETTERS: EXTRAORDINARY SEXUAL DISPLAY BY A PAIR OF HEDGE-SPARROWS; THREE REDSHANKS AT ONE NEST

01 April 1930 Comments ...

Article PDF - V23_N04_P103-104_RV017.pdf

01 April 1930 Comments ...

THE MIGRATIONS OF BRITISH AND IRISH WOODCOCK: RESULTS OF THE MARKING METHOD

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Reviews

01 September 1929 Comments Reviews Report on Scottish Ornithology in 1927, including Migration. By Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. Reprinted from The Scottish Naturalist, 1928, p p . 105-121 and 135-162. THIS excellent annual summary of Scottish ornithological events appears ...

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Letter

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

Some further Notes from the North Atlantic

Do juvenile birds survive less than adults

NOTES

LETTERS: EXTRAORDINARY SEXUAL DISPLAY BY A PAIR OF HEDGE-SPARROWS; THREE REDSHANKS AT ONE NEST

Article PDF - V23_N04_P103-104_RV017.pdf

THE MIGRATIONS OF BRITISH AND IRISH WOODCOCK: RESULTS OF THE MARKING METHOD

Reviews

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