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Post-fledging behaviour of Choughs on Bardsey Island

01 June 1962 Comments Main paper T H E C H O U G H S {Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) of Bardsey Island, off the coast of Caernarvonshire, have been a constant source of interest since the bird observatory opened there in 1953. O n e or two pairs have nested in most years and forty-seven young ...

Robin recaptures on Fair Isle

01 June 1962 Comments Main paper O N F A I R ISLE, Shetland, it is the normal practice to weigh all migrant birds at the time they are first trapped, and at any subsequent recaptures. The information is stored in a card-index, with all the data for each individual on a single card. In th...

Albinism and melanism in birds

01 June 1962 Comments Main paper T H E STUDY OF heterochtosis or colour variations in the plumage of birds is a subject that the majority of field ornithologists either ignore entirely or regard with only mild curiosity. In the early years of the present century and before that, however,...

Letters

01 June 1962 Comments Letters Black-headed Gtills eating acorns Sirs,--With reference to earlier notes on the subject of Black-headed Gulls (Lams ridibundus) eating acorns (Brit. Birds, 50: 75 and 347; 54: 118 and 130-131), I should like to point out that the late Humphrey Swann recor...

Notes

01 June 1962 Comments Notes Red-legged Partridge paddling in the sea.--On 24th March 1962, at Hunstanton, Norfolk, I saw a Red-legged Partridge {Alectoris rufa) standing in the shallow waves of the incoming tide about 250 yards below high water mark. It was a warm, dry afternoon and...

Report of the Cambridge Bird Club, 1946

01 December 1947 Comments Editorials --The nomenclature followed in this volume is in accordance with t h e " Systematic List " printed at the end of Volume V of The Handbook of British Birds and reprinted in t h e revised edition of A Chech-List of British Birds. Abberton Reservoir, Essex, ...

Reviews

01 December 1947 Comments Reviews [No reference is made in these notices t o t h e Waxwing invasion of 1946-7 or inland occurrences of Curlew-Sandpipers and Little Stints in 1946, as these are covered b y special reports in this and the following issues. Cornwall Bird-watching and Preser...

Notes

01 December 1947 Comments Notes I AM indebted to the Rev. L. G. M. Sheldon, of Crowborough, Sussex, who is an experienced ornithologist and at whose vicarage these notes were made, for providing me with the following facts. In mid-April of this year, 1947, a cock Pied Wagtail (Motacill...

The Glaucous Gull in winter

01 December 1947 Comments Main paper (Plates 40-53). SINCE the winter of 1941-42 the Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) has become a comparatively numerous winter-visitor to the Shetland Islands. At a refuse dump on the outskirts of Lerwick where it had been rare to see more than half a dozen...

Recovery of marked birds

01 December 1947 Comments Main paper Anstruther (Fife), 15.12.46, by W. J. Eggeling. X.2847 Cleveleys (Lanes.), 10.2.47, by R. M. Band. SK.258 Wigan (Lanes.), 13.1.46, by Bootham Sen. TX.844 Douglas (I.O.M.), 18.1.47, by Cowin, Crellin, Ladds and Williamson. SK.205 York, 8.12.45, by Bootham ...

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Post-fledging behaviour of Choughs on Bardsey Island

Robin recaptures on Fair Isle

Albinism and melanism in birds

Letters

Notes

Report of the Cambridge Bird Club, 1946

Reviews

Notes

The Glaucous Gull in winter

Recovery of marked birds

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