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Letter

01 July 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,---The statement (antea, p. 58) of Fr. Haverschmidt t h a t " I t seems that field observations are inadequate on this point, at least in Great Britain " is an injustice to British ornithology and ornithologists. As far back as 1896 there is evidence...

Notes

01 July 1946 Comments Notes Ox February 22nd, 1946, I received word from David Reid that a pair of Ravens {Corvus c. corax) were building a nest in a small Ayrshire heronry. I visited the site two days later and the nest, which could be distinguished from the Herons' by the presenc...

Report of the Black Redstart inquiry for 1945

01 July 1946 Comments Main paper THIS is the second annual interim Report of the Black Redstart Inquiry, and deals with the breeding status of the Black Redstart {Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) in the British Isles in 1945, together with certain breeding records for former years t...

The index of the Heron Population, 1945

01 July 1946 Comments Main paper THE number of reports on sites occupied by Herons in 1945, which were received at the Edward Grey Institute, was 137, or 26 more than in the previous year. This increase was mainly clue to the co-opcration of those taking part in rookery censuses, a numbe...

The food of the Wigeon and Brent Goose

01 July 1946 Comments Main paper The following report on the food of the Wigeon (Anas penelope) and Brent Goose (Branta bernicla) forms part of an inquiry into the food of British wildfowl, which I had been carrying out for some years before the outbreak of War. Since August 1939 no work...

Review

01 August 1939 Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory. Report for 1938. As this interesting report shows, Mr, R. M. Lockley is gradually building up at Skokholm a bird observatory which is doing valuable work. A large number of people visited the island during t h e year and helped ...

Notes

01 August 1939 Comments Notes EASILY the outstanding ornithological event in Sussex for the year 1939 was the accomplished breeding, for the first time since about 1895, of a pair of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in a sea-cliff some miles removed from the one in which, in 1938, (?) anothe...

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

01 August 1939 Comments Obituaries (1879-1939-) ornithology has suffered a severe loss in the death of the Rev. E. U. Savage on June 23rd, 1939, at the age of sixty. Since ill health forced him to retire two years ago, he had lived at Staveley, Westmorland, and before that he held livings...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

01 August 1939 Comments Main paper LEACH, HITHERTO in this series of articles we have thought it best to collect together all records of ringed birds, which have moved either from this country to abroad or from abroad to this country. This has meant a certain amount of duplication as the ...

Timing the Under-water Activities of Diving Birds

01 August 1939 Comments Main paper ACCORDING to the 20-10 seconds rule the average period of the dive in 6 feet of water is 20 seconds, and it is suggested that of this period, 10 seconds are spent in going up and down and 10 seconds on the bottom in search of food (Dewar, 1924). As a dir...

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Letter

Notes

Report of the Black Redstart inquiry for 1945

The index of the Heron Population, 1945

The food of the Wigeon and Brent Goose

Review

Notes

Obituary: Ernest Urmston Savage (1879-1939)

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

Timing the Under-water Activities of Diving Birds

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