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01 May 1971 Comments Letters Feather wear in Guillemots In view of R. J. Kennedy's note on feather wear in Guillemots Uria aalge (Brit. Birds, 63: 34-36) and the follow-up in this issue (pages 229-230), I should like to point out that a good many of the auks involved in the disaster ...

Notes

01 May 1971 Comments Notes Display-flight of Sparrowhawks I was interested in the note by R. A. Hume and P. L. Garvey on the possible display-flight of four Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus on 25th January 1970 (Brit Birds, 63: 132). The unusual features were the number involved and th...

Obituary - James Maxwell McConnell Fisher, MA (1912-1970)

01 May 1971 Comments Main paper James Fisher lost his life in a motor accident at Hendon on 25 th September 1970. Born on 3rd September 1912, he had just passed his 5 8th birthday and, if a man can reasonably look forward to the traditional three score and ten, he was denied at least a ...

Studies of less familiar birds 165: Serin

01 May 1971 Comments Main paper Plates 29-34 Compared with its well-known relative, the Canary Serinus canaria, of the Canary Islands, Azores and Madeira, the Serin S. serinus is smaller and not so brightly coloured. In many ways it bears more resemblance to the Siskin Carduelis spinus ...

Observations on a resident population of Stonechats in Jersey

01 May 1971 Comments Main paper Between 1950 and 1970 I studied a population of Stonechats Saxicola torquata in the area of St Ouen's Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands. In the course of this, nearly 1,000 individuals of all ages were ringed and, between 1951 and 1965, 660 of them were also c...

Recent reports

01 May 1971 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The last summary (Brit, Birds, 64: 135-136) covered the rarer species and most of the unseasonal summer visitors in December 1970 and January 1971. This one deals with the remaining reports in...

News and Comment

01 May 1971 Comments News and comment Birds of Estuaries Enquiry This joint project of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was outlined in 'News and comment' last year (Brit. Birds, 63: 183). The first report of the pilot survey, covering the p...

Recent reports: September to December

01 February 1966 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary contiaues the one published ia December (firit. Birds, 58: 527-528) and is confined to the rarities in the last quarter of 1965. The great fall of migrants in early September wa...

News and comment

01 February 1966 Comments News and comment Ornithological news from the U.S.S.R.--The 4th All-Union Ornithological Conference, held in the beautiful central Asian city of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R., from 1st to 7th September 1965, was attended by 263 delegates, three of whom came from western ...

Letters

01 February 1966 Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...

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Obituary - James Maxwell McConnell Fisher, MA (1912-1970)

Studies of less familiar birds 165: Serin

Observations on a resident population of Stonechats in Jersey

Recent reports

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Recent reports: September to December

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