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Notes to the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper DURING THE SUMMER of 1956 we visited the north-east of Iceland for the purpose of studying and filming; the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon (Falco rusticolus islandus). The expedition was in the Myvatn area from 9th to 21st J u n e . W e wish to record...

Recent reports and news

01 August 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Reviews

01 August 1958 Comments Reviews By D. A. BANNERMAN. Illustrated by G. E. Lodge. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh), Vol. VI (I957)= 3 2 Â° pages; 26 colour plates. Vol. VII (1958): 256 pages; 27 colour plates. ^ 3 3s. each. THE SIXTH VOLUME describes the storks, herons, Flamingo, swans, ge...

Notes

01 August 1958 Comments Notes Eider's method of eating crabs.--On 16th December 1957 and subsequent days I had several first-winter Eiders (Somateria mollissima) under observation from the pier at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. They were seen diving from a range of a few yards and on returni...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCI. Bridled Tern

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper (Plates 45-48) T H E BRIDLED, Brown-winged or Panayan Tern (Sterna anaethetus), widely distributed in tropical and sub-tropical seas, has been recorded only three times in the British Isles. All were beach-drifted birds--one each at Dungeness, Kent, on 19...

Late season singing of the Yellowhammer

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper August showed that the birds were giving relatively large song totals. T h e maximum recorded from one bird w a s 3,482 songs in one day. Apart from August being a month when very few other species in Britain sing persistently, this can be regarded as ver...

Letters

01 August 1946 Comments Letters --The habit, referred to by several contributors to this and the previous volume T f this journal (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300, 360, Vol. > xxxix, pp. 159,160) in which parent birds of many species probe into the nest lining beneath the young, has b...

Review

01 August 1946 Comments Reviews Glossarium Europce Avium. By Harriet I. J0rgensen and Cecil I. Blackburne. · Einar Mimksgaard, Copenhagen, 1941. T H I S invaluable little book, prepared before the war and published in Copenhagen in 1941, has as yet had little' opportunity of demonstrat...

Notes

01 August 1946 Comments Notes As there is no mention in The Handbook of British Birds of a female Greenfinch (Chloris ch. chloris) singing, the following may be worthy of note. 1 have in my garden near Crawley, Sussex, a nest of this species in a cypress-tree, which hatched on May 21...

The Breeding of Marsh and Montagu's Harriers in North Wales in 1945

01 August 1946 Comments Main paper IN 1945 the first recorded breeding of Marsh-Harriers (Circus ce. aruginosus) in recent years outside East Anglia took place in N. Wales, in which region the last known cases of nesting of this species were in Merionethshire in 1869 and 1877 (Forrest, 190...

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Notes to the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon

Recent reports and news

Reviews

Notes

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCI. Bridled Tern

Late season singing of the Yellowhammer

Letters

Review

Notes

The Breeding of Marsh and Montagu's Harriers in North Wales in 1945

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