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01 October 1972 Comments Notes Great Blue Herons coming on board ships in mid-Atlantic In late November 1968 reports appeared in the Bristol press that a heron had arrived at Avonmouth on a British merchantman, M.V. Pkardy, and had been taken to Rode Tropical Bird Gardens at Frome, Som...

Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper In October 1962, while travelling from New York to Southampton in R.M.S. Mauretania, I was fortunate to witness a fall of over 130 American landbirds of 34 species (Durand 1963). This was the highlight of five years of voyaging across the North Atlantic i...

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper ...

Editorial: Field guides and identification

01 October 1972 Comments Editorials The recent publication of The Birds of Britain and Europe with North Africa and the Middle East, by Hermann Heinzel, Richard Fitter and John Parslow (reviewed on pages 445-448), has met with a wide range of reactions, both favourable and unfavourable. Thi...

Recent reports—July

01 October 1972 Comments Recent Reports ...

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01 September 1941 Comments Notes A NEST of this bird (Muscicapa s. striata) was begun on May 27th, 1941 on the top of a nesting-box in an alcove of my house in Bucks, but was later abandoned, owing probably to the nesting material slipping off the smooth lid. The Flycatchers then turned...

Christopher Merrett and his Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum

01 September 1941 Comments Main paper CHRISTOPHER MERRETT, the son of Christopher Merret, was born at Winchcomb, in Gloucestershire, on February 16th, 1614. In 1631 he became a member of Gloucester Hall, Oxford, and later removed to Oriel College. He took his B.A. degree in 1635, and then--de...

Further data on nest-Sanitation

01 September 1941 Comments Main paper THE present paper is a natural sequel to that by R. H. Blair and B. W. Tucker (antea, Vol. xxxiv, pp. 206-215, 226-235, 2 50-255). That paper, it may be recalled, summarized the observations on the nest-sanitation of over 70 species collected in the cours...

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Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

Flight identification of European raptors

Editorial: Field guides and identification

Recent reports—July

Notes

Christopher Merrett and his Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum

Further data on nest-Sanitation

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