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List of country and area recorders in Britain and Ireland

01 March 1967 Comments Editorials SEVERAL READERS have suggested that we publish a list of the names and addresses of the county bird recorders and editors. Those who are collating records for special analyses often need such a list and sometimes they approach the wrong persons or else fo...

News and comment

01 March 1967 Comments News and comment Formation of ECHO Institute.--ECHO (L'Institut pour l'Ettregistrement et Etudes des cnants et Cfis d'oiseaux) is a non-profit-making, scientific body recently formed on the initiative of J.-C, Roche for the recording and study of bird voice. One of its ob...

Requests for information

01 March 1967 Comments Editorials Autumn and winter influx of Rough-legged Buzzards.---Since October 1966 unusual numbers of Rough-legged Buzzards Buteo lagopus have been widely scattered in eastern and south-eastern counties with some also well inland and others as far west as Cornwall a...

Notes

01 March 1967 Comments Notes Lesser Kestrels feeding after dark on insects attracted to artificial light.--At dusk each evening during 13th- 15th May 1964, at Titov Veles, Yugoslavia, I watched up to 43 Lesser Kestrels Falco naumanni hawking for moths and other insects in the vicinit...

Food of Long-eared Owls in north-east Ireland

01 March 1967 Comments Main paper Long-eared Owl Asio otus is the most common owl in Ireland, detailed knowledge of the nature of its food is limited to a single analysis of pellets (L. E. Adams, in Standen 1897). Adams collected these, so far as is known, from the Ballycastle area, Co. A...

Studies of less familiar birds: 143. Subalpine Warbler

01 March 1967 Comments Main paper (Plates 13-16) T H E S K U L K I N G HABITS of the Subalpine Warbler Sylvia cantillans make it difficult to observe. The male is distinctively coloured, however, with unmarked throat and breast of bright chestnut shading to pale pinkish-buff on belly and ...

Letters

01 April 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. Miller Christy, in his very interesting letter in your last issue (p. 91), remarks t h a t I have n o t done justice t o the bird-life on Walthamstow Reservoirs, b u t I must point o u t t h a t m y note was only intended to record t h e nestin...

Reviews

01 April 1963 Comments Reviews Aberdeen University Bird-migration Inquiry: First Interim Report (1909-12). By A. Landsborough Thomson, M.A., M.B.O.U. (Reprinted from the Scottish Naturalist, July, October, November, 1912 ; February, April and June, 1913.) THESE papers give details of t...

Notes

01 April 1963 Comments Notes W E have received a good many schedules relating to these two inquiries (see Vol. VI., pp. 296-311, and Vol. VII, pp. 4-6), but we sincerely hope that many more of our readers will send in particulars. This should now be done without delay, and if the fo...

On Incubation

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper As has previously been shown,* many birds belonging to various Orders commence incubation upon the laying of the first egg. This habit is undoubtedly of the utmost value to many species, saving the eggs from destruction by the numerous animals which devou...

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List of country and area recorders in Britain and Ireland

News and comment

Requests for information

Notes

Food of Long-eared Owls in north-east Ireland

Studies of less familiar birds: 143. Subalpine Warbler

Letters

Reviews

Notes

On Incubation

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