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01 July 1952 Comments Reviews The Greenshank. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson (Collins, 1951). 15s. In The Handbook's account of the Greenshank it was evident t h a t much of our knowledge of the species was due to Mr. Nethersole-Thompson, but it needed the publication of this book to ...

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01 July 1952 Comments Notes Long-tailed Tits' unorthodox nesting arrangements.--On April 21st, 1951, the writers found the nest of a Long-tailed Tit (Mgithalos caudatus) in the main fork of an apple tree near Brandon, Suffolk. Such a site' is unusual in East Anglia, and the nest ha...

Reports on the movements of some commoner summer migrants at British Bird observatories in 1951

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper As already mentioned, these reports are confined to the spring migration. The expression " Bird/Days," as used last year, represents the sum of the birds recorded each day, and as individuals may stay for more than one day it does not necessarily represe...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLI. The Black Woodpecker, The White-backed Woodpecker

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper THE WHITE-BACKED WOODPECKER. Photographed by P. O. SWANBERG. (Plates 53-59). W E are indebted to P. O. Swanberg for photographs of the Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) taken in Sweden, and to Jb. v. d. Peppel and J. P. Strijbos for Dutch material. The...

Report from bird observatories, 1951

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper more we are indebted to those in charge of the Bird Observatories for a series of reports on their work. This year we are glad to include reports from Monks' House on the Northumberland coast and from Jersey, where new Observatories have been opened. We ...

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater in Scilly: A new British bird

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper MANY of our readers are probably aware that a new species, the Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops superciliosus) was added to the British list last year. Publication of the record has been delayed as it was felt that the occasion demanded a coloured plate. W...

Letters

01 February 1938 Comments Letters SIRS,--In reply to Mr. Lockley's letter under this heading (antea, pp. 278-9), I had two main points t o make in m y report on Skokholm Island, namely :-- 1. That owing t o its depredations on Storm-Petrels, the Little Owl should, if possible, be prevente...

Notes

01 February 1938 Comments Notes ON April 15th, 1937, a male Bullfinch which appeared to be much larger than the British Bullfinch (Pyrrhula p. pileata) was seen moving about in some trees on Holy Island. Later in the day this bird was shot by a resident on the island and was sent in to...

Recovery of marked birds

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper Rawdon (Yorks), 24.4.37, by Bramhope (Yorks), 15.7.37. C. Wontner-Smith. Ditto 4-S-37- Allerton (Yorks), 13.8.37. Stodmarsh (Kent), 16.4.33, by Where ringed, --.9.37. Oxford Orn. Soc. R I N G E D AS FULL-GROWN. Gt. Budworth (Ches), 17.7.35, Acton Bridge ...

Birds seen in two winter transects of the North Atlantic

01 February 1938 Comments Main paper bird-counts of the North Atlantic crossing have already appeared, and in these the significance of the figures has been fully discussed. The most comprehensive is by V. C. Wynne-Edwards (Proc. Boston Soc, Nat. Hist., Vol. XL., No. 4, pp. 233-346. January,...

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Reports on the movements of some commoner summer migrants at British Bird observatories in 1951

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLI. The Black Woodpecker, The White-backed Woodpecker

Report from bird observatories, 1951

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater in Scilly: A new British bird

Letters

Notes

Recovery of marked birds

Birds seen in two winter transects of the North Atlantic

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