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01 August 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Is it generally known t h a t t h e Green Woodpecker eats fruit ? I watched one on October 23rd making a hearty meal off an apple a few yards from m y window, and since then many large apples picked u p plainly show t h e marks of this bird's power...

Reviews

01 August 1963 Comments Reviews Report on the Immigration of Summer-residents in the Spring of 1912 ; also Notes on the Migratory Movements and Records received from Lighthouses and Light-vessels during the Autumn of 1911. By the Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Club (...

Notes

01 August 1963 Comments Notes I WAS at Dungeness from October 20th to 23rd, 1913, and a great deal of migration was proceeding at the time, chiefly of flocks of finches and other birds flying south in the early morning. Between 12 noon and 1 p.m. on the 20th I saw a party of thirteen...

Recovery of Marked Birds.

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper STABLINGS (Stumus v. vulgaris).--U513, 41526, 41539, 46201, 46284, 46310, 46314, 46363, 46375, immature, marked b y Mr. W. E . Suggitt, at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, during J u l y and August, 1913. Recovered during November and December, 1913, from near ...

The Dusky Warbler in Orkney. A New British Bird.

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper EAGLE CLARKE writes to the Scottish Naturalist (1913, pp. 271-3) that during the past autumn he and Dr. 0. B. Ticehurst with George Stout were observing migration on Auskerry (Orkneys), and that on October 3rd, 1913, a strange warbler was detected and ev...

On the Breeding-Habits of the Dartford Warbler

01 August 1963 Comments Main paper M Y first introduction to the Dartford Warbler {Sylvia undata dartfordiensis) was in 1906 in one of the home counties. Since then I have had exceptional opportunities of studying this most interesting bird, and some forty pairs in four widely separated lo...

Migrants through Malta and Gozo: October, 1941 to July, 1945

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper In Autumn 1941 and spring 1945, I had an opportunity of noting the comings and goings of migrants through the islands of Malta and Gozo. The vast majority of the birds seen were British birds, in so far as they are on the British List, and were passage...

Territory in the Ringed Plover

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper IN July, 1944, I had an opportunity of studying the territorial behaviour of Ringed Plover (Charadrius h. hiaticula), at Malahide, Co. Dublin, where large numbers nest in and around the tern colony. The conditions for observation were exceptionally fav...

Notes on the birds of Abberton Reservoir, Esses

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

Recovery of Marked Birds.

The Dusky Warbler in Orkney. A New British Bird.

On the Breeding-Habits of the Dartford Warbler

Migrants through Malta and Gozo: October, 1941 to July, 1945

Territory in the Ringed Plover

Notes on the birds of Abberton Reservoir, Esses

Notes

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