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American Wigeon

01 January 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The numbers of American Wigeons Anas americana recorded in Britain & Ireland have increased significantly since the establishment of BBRC in 1958, and records ceased to be considered by the Committee from 1st January 2002.The...

The restoration of the Red-billed Chough in Cornwall

01 January 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax has a restricted range in Britain and has been in long-term decline since at least the early 1800s. Southwest England was a former stronghold and Cornwall was the last county in ...

Seabird control and fishery protection in Cornwall, 1900-50

01 January 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Environmental history research in the archives of the Cornish Sea Fisheries Committee has revealed the extent to which some seabird species were perceived as pests in the early twentieth century by fishing communities, fishing orga...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 July 1935 Comments Main paper No. RT.7932 RT.6704 RV.2460 Cobbinshaw (Midlothian), 2.6.34, f Â° r Midlothian Orn. Club. Giggleswick (Yorks.), 14.5.33, by A. H. Eggeling. Skipwith (Yorks.), 13.6.34, for Bootham Sen. Recovered. Kirknewton (Midlothian), 26.3.35, by C. Jarvis. 3 m. awa...

Observations on times of Feeding

01 July 1935 Comments Main paper FOR some time I have adopted the common practice of feeding birds near the house by providing them with a variety of food --bread, table scraps, suet, seed, coco-nuts and pea-nuts. Gradually I became aware of a certain regularity in the time when each spe...

Remarkable Spring Migration of Manx Shearwaters and other sea Birds

01 July 1935 Comments Main paper THE following observations were made during a stay of a week's duration near Cape Cornwall. Whenever the Cape or the coast to the north-east was visited between April 6th-ioth, 1935, Manx Shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus), Razorbills (Alca torda), Guillemot...

Field Notes on the Coot. With special reference to its Winter Movements and Diving Habits

01 July 1935 Comments Main paper ALTHOUGH the distribution of the Coot (Fulica a. atra) in the breeding-season is limited by its requirements in the matter of nesting sites, it is, even so, by no means numerous in the west and south-west of Britain. It is therefore obvious that the imme...

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