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01 April 1962 Comments Notes Little Grebes attacking Moorhens.--With regard to the recent note by J. B. and S, Bottomley on Little Grebes {Podiceps ruficollis) attacking Coots (Fulica atra) and domestic ducks {Anas sp.) {Brit. Birds, 54: 427), it seems worth reporting that I saw seve...

Studies of less familiar birds 118. Rock Bunting and Rock Sparrow

01 April 1962 Comments Main paper country. T h e earliest record is of t w o netted by' bird-catchers in late October 1902 near Shoreham, Sussex, and these were followed by one seen at Faversham, Kent, in mid-February 1905; then, after aninterval of over fifty years without any report whi...

Radar evidence on migratory orientation

01 April 1962 Comments Main paper ing so rapidly that this may be a useful time at which to review evidence on the orientation of bird migrants over the sea provided by radar. This evidence requires local knowledge for its interpretation and, since even with local knowledge I have made mi...

River Warbler on Fair Isle: a bird new to Britain

01 April 1962 Comments Main paper A F I R S T - W I N T E R River Warbler (Locustel/a fluviatilis) was trapped at Fair Isle on 24th September 1961, and seen again on the following day. This is the first record of this east European species in the British Isles, although it breeds as ne...

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01 June 1939 Comments Notes THE recent note about Blackbirds (Turius m. merula) feeding on small fish (antea, Vol. XXXII, p. 397) recalls to me that six or seven years ago I watched a pair take repeatedly small tadpoles from a shallow bay of the Little Exe, above Dulverton. Both bir...

Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...

Notes on the Lapwing and Curlew Breeding Population of a Cumberland Farm

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper 1937 and 1938 a census was undertaken of' the Lapwings (Vaneihts vanellus) and Curlews (Numenius a. atquata) breeding on an area of farm-land in Cumberland extending to 650 acres or approximately one square mile. This area is about three hundred feet abov...

Some Notes on the Diurnal Song of Birds

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper (Plate i.) H. G. ALEXANDER in his invaluable paper on the "Song of Birds " (antea, Vol. XXIX, pp. 190-8) dealt with, as it may be called, the " longitudinal aspect" of the subject, that is to say with the duration of song between the beginning and end of ...

Additions and Alterations to the British List

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper changes appearing in Volume II. of The Handbook of British Birds have not previously been notified in these pages and these are briefly referred to below. In addition there are some changes in Volume III., and as this is about to be published it will be c...

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01 May 1939 Comments Notes IN May, 1937, I watched a hen Blackbird (Turdus m. merula) at the weir at Cropston Reservoir, Leicestershire, catching what I took to be minnows, but they may have been sticklebacks. The fish had been stranded in small shallow pools and were swimming abo...

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Studies of less familiar birds 118. Rock Bunting and Rock Sparrow

Radar evidence on migratory orientation

River Warbler on Fair Isle: a bird new to Britain

Notes

Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

Notes on the Lapwing and Curlew Breeding Population of a Cumberland Farm

Some Notes on the Diurnal Song of Birds

Additions and Alterations to the British List

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