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01 March 1961 Comments Reviews Atlas of European Birds. By K. H . Voous. N e l s o n , London, i960. 284 pages; 419 maps and 355 photographs. 70s. One of the post-war developments in ornithology has been the attention given to bird distribution. There has been a growing realisation of ...

Notes

01 March 1961 Comments Notes Beetles in the plumage of birds.--On 25 th May 1959 I picked up a freshly dead Swift (Apus apus) on the sloping concrete bank of Hilfield Park Reservoir, Hertfordshire. On examining the bird I discovered a single beetle of the species Haltka ohracearighti...

A survey of moulting Shelduck on Knechtsand

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper sand-banks which lies 8.1 nautical miles from the German mainland between Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven. It extends from 8Â°i8'E to 8Â°29'i5"E and from 5 3 V ' i 8 " N to 5 3Â°46'i5"N. Robins Balje is a natural boundary on the south-west side, while the ...

Warbler fluctuations in Oak Woodland in the Severn Valley

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper T w o P R E V I O U S P A P E R S of mine in British Birds (1935, 1950) gave population statistics for the Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) and four species of warbler--Willow Warbler (Pbylloscopus trnchilus), Chiffchaff (PL collybitd), Garden Warbler ...

The contamination of birds with pollen and other substances

01 March 1961 Comments Main paper A s A RESULTof an appeal in a paper by Ash (195 9), further specimens of polleniferous contaminants, some containing other substances, were removed from the heads of migrant birds in i960. The most notable contribution was made by P.H.J, in the Camargue, ...

News and Comment

01 April 1955 Comments News and comment A new edition of the Field Guide.--Many bird-watchers find it difficult to remember the time when A. Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, by Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort and P. A. D . Hollom, was not as essential a part of their equipment...

Reviews

01 April 1955 Comments Reviews T h e P o p u l a r H a n d b o o k of British Birds. By P . A. D . H o l l o m . 3rd (revised) edition. Witherby, L o n d o n , 1962. xxiii-f-511 p a g e s ; 151 plates. 48s. When The Popular Handbook first appeared in 1952, it made available to a far wi...

Notes

01 April 1955 Comments Notes Ringed Plover breeding on cliff top,--In mid-June 1962 D . Carr, R, M. Lockley and I found a pair of Ringed Plovers {Charadrim hiaiicula) breeding on top of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire, within a hundred yards of the cliff edge. The site was a fairly l...

Peregrines and homing pigeons

01 April 1955 Comments Main paper I N A L L C O U N T R I E S where there are still Peregrines {Falcoperegrinus), and where pigeon-racing is widely practised by different sections of the community, there is generally a marked antagonism between those interested in birds of prey and their ...

Changes in the status of birds of prey in Europe

01 April 1955 Comments Main paper breeding status of diurnal birds of prey in Europe and the factors which have brought about increases or decreases during the last century; it ·excludes the owls because too little is known about many of them. It is based on an extensive survey of the li...

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Reviews

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A survey of moulting Shelduck on Knechtsand

Warbler fluctuations in Oak Woodland in the Severn Valley

The contamination of birds with pollen and other substances

News and Comment

Reviews

Notes

Peregrines and homing pigeons

Changes in the status of birds of prey in Europe

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