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Sewage-farms as bird-habitats

01 June 1957 Comments Main paper FROM THE POINT of view of the birds that visit our sewage-farms, attracted there by food of unusual abundance and sapidity, and of the watchers who in turn are attracted by the birds, the modernization of one after another of these artificial marshes is l...

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXXII. Great Grey Shrike

01 June 1957 Comments Main paper T H E TYPICAL SHRIKES (Lanius spp.) a r e a widespread genus that is represented in Europe, Asia, Africa and N . America by some 22 species--that is treating t h e Brown, Isabelline and Red-backed Shrikes (L. cristatus-isabellinus-collurio) as conspecific...

A Desert Race of the Great Grey Shrike: New to the British Isles

01 June 1957 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory) (Plate 41 left) A FIRST-WINTER example of Lanius excubitor pallidirostris, variously known as Bogdanoff's Shrike (Dresser, 1895), Grimm's Grey Shrike (Dresser, 1902), and the Steppe Shrike (Edberg, 1954), was watched, trapped ...

Collared Doves in Norfolk

01 June 1957 Comments Main paper (Plates I and 41-42) O N 3RD JULY 1956, M . J . S . was attracted by the unfamiliar trisyllabic cooing- of two doves, one of which was seen, in the trees of a large walled garden near the sea in north Norfolk. Later, on consulting published descriptions a...

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Sewage-farms as bird-habitats

Photographic studies of some less familiar birds: LXXXII. Great Grey Shrike

A Desert Race of the Great Grey Shrike: New to the British Isles

Collared Doves in Norfolk

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