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Studies of some species rarely photographed. LIII. Tawny Pipit

01 December 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 68-71) T H E Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris) is usually looked upon in Britain with greater interest than are the other rarer pipits. Possibly this is because it bred in Sussex on one or two occasions at the beginning of the present century or per...

Report from Bird Observatories, 1952

01 December 1953 Comments Main paper ONCE again we are glad to include a series of reports from the Bird Observatories. During 1952, one new Observatory--at Dungeness in Kent--was opened, thus bringing to eleven the total engaged in this kind of work, a total that has been further increased ...

Errata

01 December 1953 Comments Editorials VOL. XLVI. Line 13 from bottom, for "Savidge" read "Savage". Line 12 from bottom, for "extirpation" read "extirpation". Line 27 from bottom, for "cinerea" read "brachydactyla". Line 19, for "the first record" read "the second record". Line 17, for " E x e...

Letter

01 December 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--Beginning with 1953 an annual report for the county of Norfolk is to be published jointly by the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society and the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust and I would be grateful if any of your readers who have records of observat...

Reviews

01 December 1953 Comments Reviews The Birds of the British Isles. By D. A. Bannerman and G. E. Lodge. (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1953.) Vol. I. 45s. Tins work was conceived as a vehicle to make available a complete range of Mr. Lodge's fine paintings. Undoubtedly his most widely known wor...

Notes

01 December 1953 Comments Notes Cley, Norfolk, Mr. and Mrs. H. P . Medhurst and R.A.R. saw a very small tawny heron, little larger than a Moorhen (Gcdlinula chloropus), and with dark primaries and secondaries, rise out of a narrow belt of reeds beside the bank and fly lightly for a few ...

The migrations of British Warblers (Sylviid¾) as shown by the results of ringing

01 December 1953 Comments Main paper T H E purpose of this paper is to analyse the recovery records of birds of species of Sylviidse ringed in the British Isles under the scheme now managed by the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and earlier by the late H. F . With...

Letters

01 October 1950 Comments Letters --I am engaged in investigating t h e ringing records of Blue Tits. Amongst the known causes of death it is astonishing to find that the mousetrap is a principal one. I t may be necessary to place r a t and mouse traps in gardens, b u t I suggest that the...

Notes

01 October 1950 Comments Notes WITH reference to the note (antea, p. 54) on this topic, in June, 1949, an Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura) made repeated stoops at my companion, Dr. H. K. Whitehouse, while he was standing by the bank of the river in Hvalfjordur a few yards from our camp in...

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper A CENSUS of cliff-nesting seabirds is usually carried out by making a careful count of every occupied nest, thus giving the number of breeding pairs. This is the most accurate method and can be carried out comparatively easily in the case of species that ...

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Studies of some species rarely photographed. LIII. Tawny Pipit

Report from Bird Observatories, 1952

Errata

Letter

Reviews

Notes

The migrations of British Warblers (Sylviid¾) as shown by the results of ringing

Letters

Notes

Methods of determining breeding-cliff populations of Guillemots and Razorbills

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