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A Black-headed Gull showing both albinism and melanism

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

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01 September 1962 Comments Reviews Identification for Ringers: 2. T h e Genus Phylloscopus. By Kenneth Williamson. British Trust for Ornithology, Oxford, 1962. 86 pages; 1 colour and 4 monochrome plates. 7s. There are now about a thousand ringers in Britain. Many of these are trained and l...

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01 September 1962 Comments Notes Shelduck moulting in breeding area.--On 9th July 1961, in an area of extensive fresh grazing marshes in north Kent, I noticed an adult male Shelduck (Tadorna tadornd) swimming along the edge of a large fleet. The knob on its bill had regressed, but it was...

Studies of less familiar birds 119. Great Grey Owl

01 September 1962 Comments Main paper mbulosd) by Oscar Moberg were published in British Birds in 1956 (49: plates 1-3), but the remarkable flight pictures by Hilding Mickelsson and Goran Hansson n o w reproduced o n plates 60 and 61 more than justify the species being included in this series...

Radar films of migration over eastern England

01 September 1962 Comments Main paper Research Laboratories of Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy Co. Ltd., at Great Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, have taken films of a radar display by time-lapse photography and many of these provide a clear record of bird migration; some were shown at the British O...

Behaviour of Pied Flycatchers during an eclipse of the sun

01 September 1962 Comments Main paper during eclipses of the sun, when light intensities may be lower than those which inhibit feeding and other regular activities on normal evenings. This short paper therefore sets out to record some observations which my wife and I made on a pair of Pied Fl...

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01 May 1957 Comments Notes Vagrants at Skokholm in September 1956.--At Skokholm the period gth-i2th September 1956 was one of outstanding interest, with consid'erable variety of common migrants and four species which are major rarities in Wales. T w o juvenile Ortolan Buntings (Emb...

Field-notes on some birds of South-East Europe: LXXXI. Ortolan Bunting

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper T H E S E notes are compiled from field-observations made by the writers in south-east Europe in the autumn of 1956. W e travelled via Venice and the Adriatic (28th August-2nd September), through Greece (Athens, 3rd-5th September; Delphi, 6th-8th Septembe...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper Photographed by K. (Plates 33-35) only a vagrant in Britain, the Ortolan Bunting (Emberisa hortulana) has a wide distribution in the Palaearctic region, breeding in most parts of Continental Europe from Spain in the south to the arctic circle in the north...

The past and present status of the Buzzard in the British Isles

01 May 1957 Comments Main paper MYXOMATOSIS spread from the Continent of Europe to the British Isles late in the summer of 1953. The Buzzard (Buteo buteo), which was known to feed extensively on Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), was likely to be indirectly affected by the disease, so tha...

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A Black-headed Gull showing both albinism and melanism

Reviews

Notes

Studies of less familiar birds 119. Great Grey Owl

Radar films of migration over eastern England

Behaviour of Pied Flycatchers during an eclipse of the sun

Notes

Field-notes on some birds of South-East Europe: LXXXI. Ortolan Bunting

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds

The past and present status of the Buzzard in the British Isles

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