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01 February 1967 Comments News and comment T h e National Cage Birds Show.--As usual, the National Cage Birds Show at London's Olympia from 8th to ioth December 1966 was dominated by canaries and budgerigars, and there seemed to be even fewer foreign species of special interest to the British fiel...

Reviews

01 February 1967 Comments Reviews In Search of Birds. By Collingwood Ingram. Witherby, London, 1966. 286 pages. 30s. This is a colourful patchwork quilt of sixty years' and a very good thirty shillings' worth of ornithological observations, experiences and ruminations, which no one with e...

Notes

01 February 1967 Comments Notes Fulmars sitting in trees.--Fulmars Fulmarus glaciatis in east Sutherland have been noted for their versatility ever since Frank Darling and Averil Morley recorded that they -were frequenting the roof of Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, in 1947 {Brit. Birds, 40: ...

Numbers of Dartford Warblers in England during 1962-66

01 February 1967 Comments Main paper (Tubbs 1963) it was shown that the Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata is subject to periodic population 'crashes' which are correlated with severe winters and normally follow a build-up in numbers over several years. Such a build-up was demonstrated for the N...

Obituary: Denzil Dean Harber (1909-1966)

01 February 1967 Comments Obituaries H A R B E R died on 31st August 1966 at the Westminster Hospital, London, after a major operation which had at first seemed successful. He was 5 7. Latterly he was known to readers oiBritishBirds chiefly as the Honorary Secretary of the Rarities Committe...

Studies of less familiar birds:142. Little Bustard

01 February 1967 Comments Main paper T H E S E S T U D I E S of a female Little Bustard Otis tetrax at the nest provide an interesting comparison with those of the female Great Bustard O. tarda by the same two photographers (Brit. Birds, 59: 22-27, frontispiece and plates 1-8). The Little Bu...

Recoveries in Great Britain and Ireland of birds ringed abroad

01 February 1967 Comments Main paper T H E YEAR 1965 produced a grand total of 721 recoveries in the British Isles of foreign-ringed birds. Five of the 71 species involved--Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus, Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis, Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, Bearded Tit Panu...

Letters

01 September 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Vosges mountains in France during the first World War earthenware pots especially designed for sparrows to nest in were to be seen on the walls of a great many farms and I have no doubt the practice still persists. These served a double purp...

Reviews

01 September 1953 Comments Reviews Rare and Extinct Birds of Britain. By Ralph Whitlock. (Phcenix House, London, 1953). 21s. I t is open to question whether a satisfactory book can be written on the subject of our rare and extinct birds. To contribute anything original to knowledge in this...

Notes

01 September 1953 Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...

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Numbers of Dartford Warblers in England during 1962-66

Obituary: Denzil Dean Harber (1909-1966)

Studies of less familiar birds:142. Little Bustard

Recoveries in Great Britain and Ireland of birds ringed abroad

Letters

Reviews

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