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Studies of less familiar birds 110. Grey-rumped Sandpiper

01 January 1961 Comments Main paper rumped Sandpiper (Tringa brevipes)* because it inhabits the remotest and wildest mountains of north-eastern Siberia. During the last few years, however, observations have been made by A.V.K., V. I. Kapitonov, K. A. Vorobiev and A. P. Vaskovski, and the fo...

Four invasions of Waxwings during 1956-60

01 January 1961 Comments Main paper T H E W A X W I N G (Bombycilla garrulus) has a Holarctic breeding distribution in the boreal zone (see Fig. i) reaching the July isotherm of 50Â° F and extending from Fenno-Scandia right across the Eurasian land-mass and into north-western America. The...

Recent reports and news

01 January 1961 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...

Reviews

01 January 1961 Comments Reviews T h e Eleventh Annual Report of the Wildfowl Trust. Edited by H u g h Boyd and Peter Scott. Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, i960. 168 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 10s. The Wildfowl Trust's Annual Report contains, as usual, a varied assortment of news of the collect...

Notes

01 January 1961 Comments Notes Little Shearwater in Norfolk.--On ist May i960 we found a freshly dead shearwater on the beach between Cley and Blakeney Point, Norfolk. It was in good condition but for the left carpal joint, which was bare to the bone. The bird was black above and white...

Foot-movements in plovers and other birds

01 January 1961 Comments Main paper W A D E R S S H O W many striking adaptations in behaviour and structure which enable them to obtain their food. In particular, several types of foot-movements have been evolved and this short paper sketches, informally, something of what is known about t...

Letters

01 March 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--Witts reference to your comments on t h e note o n . a Robin feeding a fledgling Blackbird (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p, 355), there is anotheroccurrence of a Robin feeding a brood of young Song-Thrushes mentioned, and illustrated, with three photograph...

Reviews

01 March 1946 Comments Reviews Somerset Archcsol. & Nat. Hist. Soc, Ornithological Section. Report on Somerset Birds, 1944. T H I S contains many valuable records and others of purely local interest. Blagdon Reservoir has been well watched and provides good notes on duck, some in consi...

Notes

01 March 1946 Comments Notes O N March ijth, 1945, I was in a convoy moving slowly south through the'Irish Sea. The day was brilliantly fine, the sea quite calm. In the morning the Welsh Hills were visible, but otherwise we saw neither coast. There was no fog, however. There was a v...

Obituary: Charles Bethune Moffat. (1859-1945)

01 March 1946 Comments Obituaries Betlmne Moffat, to the great regret of his many friends, died on October 14th, 1945. He was born in the Isle of Man on January16th, 1859, being the eldest of the seven children of the late James and Annie Moffat. When Charles was about a year and a half o...

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Studies of less familiar birds 110. Grey-rumped Sandpiper

Four invasions of Waxwings during 1956-60

Recent reports and news

Reviews

Notes

Foot-movements in plovers and other birds

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Obituary: Charles Bethune Moffat. (1859-1945)

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