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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...

Mortality of Adult and Young Mallards

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper A RECENT examination of the recovery data of Mallards (Anas p. platyrhyncha) ringed under the British Birds marking scheme, from its inception up to 1946, yielded no information as regards migration which was in any way additional to the excellent summary...

Tits and Peanuts

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper DURING the hard weather in February, 1947, my wife and 1 found a small cache of peanuts, preserved in the house since 1939, when we had been in the habit of stringing these together and hanging them up for the tits. On February 12th, therefore, I hung up...

"Plover's Page" Behaviour of Dunlin

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper O N May 3rd, 1931, a sunny day with a fresh N . W . wind, I was on the sea-wall between Marshside and Crossens, on the south side of the Ribble Estuary. On rough pastureland behind the sea-wall a flock of fully 500 Golden Plovers (Pluvialis a. apricaria)...

Agressive display of the Oyster-catcher

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper ...

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