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The moult migration of Shelducks from Bridgwater Bay

01 April 1966 Comments Main paper (1953) established that Bridgwater Bay in Somerset is used as a moulting ground by Shelducks Tadorna tadorna. However, later studies by Eltringham and Boyd (i960, 1963) showed that only a small proportion of the July concentration of Shelducks remains to ...

Passerine night migrants on Skokholm

01 April 1966 Comments Main paper T H E F I R S T British bird observatory was founded in 1933, when R. M. Lockley made a small Heligoland-type trap in his garden on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Lockley and Russell 1953); a big Heligoland trap was built some two hundred yards from it two year...

Reviews

01 April 1966 Comments Reviews Bird Migration: the Biology and Physics of Orientation Behaviour. By Donald R. Griffin. Science Study Series, N o . 32. Heinemann, London, 1965. x v + 1 8 0 pages; 27 text-figures. 12s. 6d. (paperback 8s. 6d.). The author's interests are clearly better re...

Notes

01 April 1966 Comments Notes Weasel killing Kestrel.--I was interested in Mrs. Sybil Selwyn's observation of a Kestrel Falco tinnunculus which caught a Weasel Mustek nivalis and carried it up into the air, but then let it go {Brit. Birds, 59: 39). On Z7th December 1930 I was watching...

Studies of less familiar birds. 139. Black Stork

01 April 1966 Comments Main paper F O R MANY YEARS N O W both European storks have been declining. The White Stork Ciconia ciconia, though protected by strong sentiment in many countries and often nesting close to man on houses, churches and ruins (plate 26), has suffered a marked decreas...

News and comment

01 April 1966 Comments News and comment An ornithological atlas ?---The possibilities of undertaking an ornithological atlas of the British Isles, along the lines of the Botanical Society of the British Isles's Atlas of the British Flora, are at present being explored by the British Trust for O...

Letters

01 April 1966 Comments Letters The spread of potato-eating i n Whooper Swans Sirs,--A tendency for flocks of up to 40 Whooper Swans Cygnus cygnus to feed inland is well attested in early European literature; and in Scotland these swans, like geese, occasionally fly some miles from wate...

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...

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The moult migration of Shelducks from Bridgwater Bay

Passerine night migrants on Skokholm

Reviews

Notes

Studies of less familiar birds. 139. Black Stork

News and comment

Letters

Letter

Notes

Report of the Black Redstart inquiry for 1945

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