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01 April 1971 Comments Main paper Plates 21-28 This is the twelfth annual selection of contemporary photography. The final choice of 13 was made from a short-list of nearly 100 prints, some of which had been submitted individually and others gathered and initially sifted by the honorary s...

Report on bird-ringing for 1969

01 April 1971 Comments Main paper Although scarcely a year has passed without the introduction of some new feature or embellishment, the basic composition of the 'Report on bird-ringing' has remained unchanged for about 15 years. It has indeed grown in size from some 36 to 48 or more page...

News and comment

01 April 1971 Comments News and comment enquiries into churchyard birds . . . Churchyards are small in extent, but there are many of them and they are widely dispersed. They constitute a distinctive type of habitat, being islands of well-spaced trees and shrubs (mainly coniferous) that general...

Letters

01 April 1971 Comments Letters Further notes on Nutcracker In 1968 and 1969 In my paper on the invasion of Nutcrackers Nmfrttga catyecatactes in autumn 1968 (Brit. Birds, 63: $53-373), I inadvertently omitted a reference to Norway from the brief national summaries of the situation in c...

Notes

01 April 1971 Comments Notes Common Sandpiper eating apple On 20th June 1970 I was sitting in a car by a small loch in Ross-shire when two Common Sandpipers Tringa hypoltmos came foraging close. One of them discovered a portion of apple and, one by one, broke off and swallowed severa...

Evening Grosbeak on St Kilda: a species new to Britain and Ireland

01 April 1971 Comments Open Access At 10.00 hours on 26th March 1969, in the old village on Hirta, St Kilda, I heard an unfamiliar call, which I noted as a metallic 'jink'. It came from a small bird perched on a dry-stone dyke and even at a range of 200 metres, using 8 x binoculars in e...

50th Anniversary messages

01 June 1957 Comments Main paper FURTHER to mark our 50 years of continuous publication, we invited comments from a number of distinguished ornithologists, chiefly Editors of other journals, both in this country and abroad. Below, we print a selection of the replies we received.From M. l...

Editorial: The First Fifty Years

01 June 1957 Comments Editorials Witherby approached many friends and fellow-ornithologists to support a monthly magazine devoted entirely to the study of British birds, which had long been in his mind. A note in his handwriting records how, at the British Ornithologists' Club that Janu...

Notes

01 June 1957 Comments Notes have asked me to comment briefly on the remarkable photograph of the Penguin-dance of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) published in this issue (plate 48). Comparatively few observers have been fortunate enough to "witness this elaborate form o...

The Dipper's Winking

01 June 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates 46-47) I HAVE had the opportunity in the last few years to study Dippers (Cinclus cinclus) at very close quarters while photographing them, and in fact have tamed these birds to such a degree that they have sat on my wrist to feed their young betw...

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More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

Report on bird-ringing for 1969

News and comment

Letters

Notes

Evening Grosbeak on St Kilda: a species new to Britain and Ireland

50th Anniversary messages

Editorial: The First Fifty Years

Notes

The Dipper's Winking

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