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Request for information Committee on toxic chemicals

01 September 1960 Comments Editorials A Joint Committee of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology has now been formed, under the Chairmanship of Stanley Cramp, to study the effects of toxic chemicals on birds. The Committee is anxious to obtain any...

Recent Reports and News

01 September 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Notes

01 September 1960 Comments Notes Curlew Sandpipers wintering in Lancashire.--On 2nd January i960, I saw a Curlew Sandpiper {Calidris testacea) on the mud-flats of the Ribble Estuary at Lytham, Lancashire. O n 12th February there were three there and from then until April up to six were s...

Studies of less familiar birds 106. Lesser Grey Shrike

01 September 1960 Comments Main paper only 22 records of the Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanitts minor) in the British Isles were admitted and five of those cannot now be accepted. Only 17 Lesser Grey Shrikes in nearly a hundred years since the first was identified in 1842--yet from the autumn of 195...

Nearctic birds in Great Britain and Ireland in autumn 1958

01 September 1960 Comments Main paper vagrant birds from across the Atlantic appeared in Great Britain and Ireland. The species involved included ones with normal distributions ranging from western Greenland and arctic Canada south to the eastern United States and Florida. Shorebirds and wate...

Letter

01 September 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--In t h e course of a study of t h e breeding population of Oystercatchers (Hmmatopus ostralegms occidenialis) on the islands of Skomer and Skokholm this year we have ringed a number of chicks with coloured rings. Though the main purpose of this has...

Notes

01 September 1946 Comments Notes THE habit of sun-bathing by passerine birds.is discussed in a note by T. S. Williams (antea, p. 152). As indicated in the Editorial comment thereto this is probably commoner than at first sight appears to be the case. To the list of species given I can a...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. VI. The Griffon Vulture

01 September 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 31-35). THE Griffon Vulture (Gyps f.fulvus), of which species a single immature example was captured near Cork in 1843 and others have been reliably reported as seen on two occasions in England, has in recent years become almost, if not quite, ext...

Some further Notes from the North Atlantic

01 September 1946 Comments Main paper (with chart). SINCE the publication in 1928 of the writer's " Bird Notes from the North Atlantic " (Brit. Birds, Vol. xxii, pp. 122-133) and of "An Ornithological Transect of the North Atlantic" (Brit. Birds, Vol. xxiv, pp. 266-274), much has been done to...

Do juvenile birds survive less than adults

01 September 1946 Comments Main paper FARNER (1945} has estimated the age and survival of the American Robin (Turdus migratorius) from ringing (banding) returns, by the method used by the present writer for various British species (Lack, 1943). Farner's conclusions agree closely with mine exc...

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Request for information Committee on toxic chemicals

Recent Reports and News

Notes

Studies of less familiar birds 106. Lesser Grey Shrike

Nearctic birds in Great Britain and Ireland in autumn 1958

Letter

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. VI. The Griffon Vulture

Some further Notes from the North Atlantic

Do juvenile birds survive less than adults

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