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01 September 1997 Comments Notes The 'Notes' section of British Birds has a history as long as that of the journal itself, providing the opportunity for mostly amateur birdwatchers--as well as the professionals--to record their observations for posterity. For many, this will be the fi...

Mystery Photographs

01 September 1997 Comments Main paper Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria, the North American counterpart of the familiar Green Sandpiper T. ochropus, is a rare transatlantic visitor to Europe, where the majority have been in Britain & Ireland (29 individuals up to the end of 1995...

Rare breeding birds panel

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Identification of Yellow-legged Gulls in Britain

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Letters

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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...

Mallard feeding from dead birds

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper from dead birds. The Birds of the 'London Area since ipoo (1957, p . 133) mentions several observations of Mallard {Anas platyrhynchos) seizing and drowning House Sparrows {Passer domesticus) and on at least two occasions the victims were swallowed {Royal...

Dowitchers in Great Britain and Ireland

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper T H E P A P E R BY P I T E L K A (1961) in this issue of British Birds shows that both the Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) and the Short-billed Dowitcher (L. griseus) have occurred in the British Isles. At the request of the editors, I am ...

Long-billed and Short-billed Dowitcher specimens in the British Museum

01 September 1961 Comments Main paper "Red-breasted Snipe" have been assigned to the one species, ~Limnodromus griseus, recognised by American ornithologists (see A.O.U. Check-list 1931; Peters 1934). However, the excellent work of Rowan (1932) first called attention to evidence that there we...

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Rare breeding birds panel

Identification of Yellow-legged Gulls in Britain

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Mallard feeding from dead birds

Dowitchers in Great Britain and Ireland

Long-billed and Short-billed Dowitcher specimens in the British Museum

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