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01 August 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Is it generally known t h a t t h e Green Woodpecker eats fruit ? I watched one on October 23rd making a hearty meal off an apple a few yards from m y window, and since then many large apples picked u p plainly show t h e marks of this bird's power...

Reviews

01 August 1963 Comments Reviews Report on the Immigration of Summer-residents in the Spring of 1912 ; also Notes on the Migratory Movements and Records received from Lighthouses and Light-vessels during the Autumn of 1911. By the Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Club (...

Notes

01 August 1963 Comments Notes I WAS at Dungeness from October 20th to 23rd, 1913, and a great deal of migration was proceeding at the time, chiefly of flocks of finches and other birds flying south in the early morning. Between 12 noon and 1 p.m. on the 20th I saw a party of thirteen...

Recovery of Marked Birds.

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper STABLINGS (Stumus v. vulgaris).--U513, 41526, 41539, 46201, 46284, 46310, 46314, 46363, 46375, immature, marked b y Mr. W. E . Suggitt, at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, during J u l y and August, 1913. Recovered during November and December, 1913, from near ...

The Dusky Warbler in Orkney. A New British Bird.

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper EAGLE CLARKE writes to the Scottish Naturalist (1913, pp. 271-3) that during the past autumn he and Dr. 0. B. Ticehurst with George Stout were observing migration on Auskerry (Orkneys), and that on October 3rd, 1913, a strange warbler was detected and ev...

On the Breeding-Habits of the Dartford Warbler

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper M Y first introduction to the Dartford Warbler {Sylvia undata dartfordiensis) was in 1906 in one of the home counties. Since then I have had exceptional opportunities of studying this most interesting bird, and some forty pairs in four widely separated lo...

Fair Isle bird observatory

01 February 1950 Comments Main paper Compiled by KENNETH WILLIAMSON (Director). The following notes have been selected from the Fair Isle Bird Observatory " Notes on Species " record-book as much for their importance in amplifying the information contained in The Handbook of British Birds a...

Marsh-Tit territories over six years

01 February 1950 Comments Main paper ...

Reviews

01 February 1950 Comments Reviews Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. Committee for Ornithology Reports for 1947 and 1948. Edited by Ralph Chislett. (Reprinted from The Naturalist, 1948, pp. 51-74, and 1949, 51-75.) T H E S E reports as usual contain much valuable material. Up to four Gannets w...

Notes

01 February 1950 Comments Notes DURING a visit to Thanet in the autumn of 1947, I was enabled, through the kindness of Mrs. Powell-Cotton, to examine the small collection of locally-taken bird-skins in the above museum. These were made readily available to me by the present Curator, Mr...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

Recovery of Marked Birds.

The Dusky Warbler in Orkney. A New British Bird.

On the Breeding-Habits of the Dartford Warbler

Fair Isle bird observatory

Marsh-Tit territories over six years

Reviews

Notes

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