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01 February 1943 Comments Letters SIRS,--As the Statement in The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. III, p. 109) that the Osprey (Pandion h. hali/ztus) last bred at Loch Arkaig in 1902 is incorrect this should be corrected. A pair nested regularly ever since I can remember up to 1908 and the...

Notes

01 February 1943 Comments Notes IN February, 1942, seventy-five nesting boxes were put up inone of the oak woods of the Forest of Dean, with the object of encouraging the breeding of insectivorous birds (tits, in particular) and thus alleviating, if possible, the recurrent outbreaks of...

How a Cuckoo Laid into a Reed-Warbler's Nest

01 February 1943 Comments Main paper FOR long I wondered how the Cuckoo (Cuculus c. canorus) placed her feet when she was " sitting on a nest " and laying her egg, so I determined to try filming one when she was victimising Reed-Warbiers (Acrocephalus s, scirpaceus) close to New Romney, Kent...

The Age of the Blackbird

01 February 1943 Comments Main paper THE potential age, the age to which birds can live, has been the subject of several papers, the earlier ones based on records in captivity, e.g. Gurney (1899), Mitchell (1911), Flower (1925), and the later ones on ringing returns, e.g. Witherby (1926), Ni...

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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How a Cuckoo Laid into a Reed-Warbler's Nest

The Age of the Blackbird

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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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