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Studies of less familiar birds 176 Barred Warbler

01 March 1975 Comments Main paper The French 'Fauvette eperviere', German 'Sperbergrasmiicke' and Swedish 'Höksångare' are all vernacular names for the Barred Warbler Sylvia nisoria. The italicised parts of these continental names all mean Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisu...

Knemidokoptic mange in Chaffinches

01 March 1975 Comments Main paper In June 1961 JWM examined a case of knemidokoptic mange* in a Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs from Somerset in which the causative mite was provisionally identified as Knemidokoptes mutatis (Macdonald 1962); since then, however, further work by P...

Viewpoint: Who took the birds out of British ornithology

01 March 1975 Comments Main paper Colin Bibby is an amateur birdwatcher by inclination and an ornithologist by profession. He currently lives in Dorset where he is studying the Dartford Warbler for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Where has the love of birds among...

Birds and other animals at Sand Martin colonies

01 March 1975 Comments Main paper One of the traditional features of the 'Notes' section of this journal has been to publish data on nesting associations. In recent years several notes have appeared concerning species breeding in the holes of Sand Martins Riparia riparia; the most rece...

News and comment

01 March 1975 Comments News and comment Proposed Great Crested Grebe census Thorough breeding season censuses of the Great Crested Grebe were made in 1935, 1946-55 and 1965; and to maintain these ten-year checks the British Trust for Ornithology is arranging for a further census of t...

Letters

01 March 1975 Comments Letters Manx Shearwaters plunge-diving Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus commonly feed by plunge-diving, in the manner described by Bernard King {Brit. Birds, 67: 77), when fish shoals are located very close to the surface. I think that the presence ,...

Notes

01 March 1975 Comments Notes Fulmar occupying Ravens' nest On 18th March 1974 I watched a pair of Ravens Corvus corax nest-building at a sea-cliff site on Out Skerries, Shetland. The pair carried materials to the site all day, and by about 18.00 hours the nest was virtuall...

Recent reports

01 March 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records A Balearic Shearwater Puffinus puffinus mauretanicus was identified off St Agnes (Scilly) on 2nd, while the only Manx Shearwaters P. p. puffinus reported were at Seaton Sluice (Nord...

Reviews

01 September 1961 Comments Reviews The Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh. By H . Albert Hochbaum. Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, U.S.A., 1959 (second edition). 207 pages; 18 photographs. $4.50. Originally published towards the end of the 1939-45 war, this was the first of a series of authorita...

Notes

01 September 1961 Comments Notes Manx Shearwater d i g g i n g by daylight.--At about 2.30 p.m. on 15th May 1961, I was walking in bright sunlight on a sloping cliff on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire, when I heard a Manx Shearwater (Procellaria puffinus) calling from its burrow. Kneeling down w...

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Studies of less familiar birds 176 Barred Warbler

Knemidokoptic mange in Chaffinches

Viewpoint: Who took the birds out of British ornithology

Birds and other animals at Sand Martin colonies

News and comment

Letters

Notes

Recent reports

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