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01 September 1969 Comments Reviews Handbuch der Vogel Mitteleuropas. Vols 2 and 3. Anseriformes. Edited by K. M. Bauer and U. N. Glutz von Blotzheim. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main. Vol 2 (1968): 535 P a g es > 5 colour plates; 76 text-figures and maps. Vol 5 (1969): 50...

Notes

01 September 1969 Comments Notes Fish jumping into Heron's mouth On 16th August 1969, at Talybont Reservoir, Breconshire, we saw a Heron Ardea cinerea standing on the edge of a small concrete 'waterfall' about two feet high; it was leaning forward in such a manner that its open bill was ...

Studies of less familiar birds: 155. Little Stint

01 September 1969 Comments Main paper Plates ]j-6o The Little Stint Calidris minuta is regular on passage in Britain and Ireland, chiefly in autumn (late July to mid-October) but also in small numbers in spring (mid-April to early June). In some autumns it is abundant, with flocks running int...

The Hastings Rarities again

01 September 1969 Comments Main paper It was only to be expected that the searching review of the Hastings Rarities in August 1962 (Nelder 1962, Nicholson and Ferguson-Lees 1962) would, in certain circles, cause considerable distress and a desire to rebut, if possible, the arguments which led...

Status and breeding success of Golden Eagles in north-west Sutherland in 1967

01 September 1969 Comments Main paper In recent years the status of the Golden Eagle Aquila chrjsaetos in Scotland has been the subject of concern. Lockie and Ratcliffe (1964) found that the breeding success in Wester Ross fell from about 70% of pairs in 1937-60 to about 30% in 1960-63. At th...

Letters

01 February 1952 Comments Letters SIRS,--In your September issue (antea, vol. xliv, p. 314) is a sight record by Mr. D. D. Harber oi a "Sooty Shearwater" seen off the Sussex coast, "some way out" to sea. The bird is described simply as " a large, all-black shearwater with a rather heavy b...

Reviews

01 February 1952 Comments Reviews Grenlands Fugle. Part II. By Finn Saiomensen. Illustrated by GitzJohansen. (Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1951. 66s.). The second part of this important work deals with the Ptarmigan, the waders, skuas and galls and the Arctic Tern; as its prohibitive cost and ...

Supplementary Notes

01 February 1952 Comments Main paper As foreshadowed in an Editorial published in May, 1951 (antea, vol. xliv, p . 146), we propose to use this heading for a list of notes which either supplement information given in The Handbook or give further instances of behaviour already fully reported ...

Notes

01 February 1952 Comments Notes vol. xliv, p . 202) of a record of Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) apparently hiding pine cones has brought in several further notes on this subject. Lord David Stuart, on several occasions in October, 1943, saw Rooks burying pine cones in a grass field at Nova...

The index of Heron population, 1951

01 February 1952 Comments Main paper T H E number of heronries on which reports for 1951 were received at the Edward Grey Institute was 190 or 17 fewer than in the previous year. Of these 140 were in England, 11 in Wales, 15 in Scotland and 24 in Ireland. The Rev. P . G. Kennedy has again su...

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Studies of less familiar birds: 155. Little Stint

The Hastings Rarities again

Status and breeding success of Golden Eagles in north-west Sutherland in 1967

Letters

Reviews

Supplementary Notes

Notes

The index of Heron population, 1951

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