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June reports and spring summary

01 September 1974 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated recordsIn England and Wales divers are of very irregular occurrence in June. Two Great Northern Divers Garia immer were at Spurn (Yorkshire) on 12th; at Seaton Sluice (Northumberland) a...

News and comment

01 September 1974 Comments News and comment Dockland bird reserveThe Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has revealed that it has acquired, on a 21-year lease, 200 hectares of marsh to the east of Goole, Yorkshire, known as Blacktoft Sands; this land is owned by the British Transpor...

Requests for information

01 September 1974 Comments Editorials Colour-ringed Great Black-backed GullsA three-year study of the feeding ecology of the Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus during 1974-76 includes the colour-ringing of some 3,600 nestlings at breeding colonies in Orkney with a two-colour comb...

Letters

01 September 1974 Comments Letters Melanism in shearwaters and auksSince Bryan L. Sage (Brit. Birds, 65: 527) comments on the supposed rarity of melanism in Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus and indeed the Procellariiformes in general, it may be worth pointing out that a dark sp...

Notes

01 September 1974 Comments Notes Great Spotted Woodpecker tapping on window paneAt 5.30 am on 10th June 1974 I was wakened by a loud tapping on the bedroom window of my house at Bow Brickhill, Buckinghamshire. After three or four taps I drew back the curtains and saw a Great Sp...

The Crag Martin in winter quarters at Gibraltar

01 September 1974 Comments Main paper The Crag Martin Hirundo rupestris is a southern Palearctic species which is generally sedentary, occasionally wandering a little in winter; it is more migratory in the northern parts of its range (Cramp 1970). In Europe it breeds from Iberia through so...

Studies of less familiar birds: 173. Icterine Warbler

01 September 1974 Comments Main paper The Icterine Warbler Hippolais icterina, so characteristic of the cultivated parklands and town parks of central and eastern Europe, is named by virtue of its general coloration from the Greek ikteros, meaning 'jaundice' or 'a greenish-yellow bird'. Th...

Feeding ecology of the Long-eared Owl in Britain and Ireland

01 September 1974 Comments Main paper ...

Studies of less familiar birds. 144. Thick-billed Warbler

01 June 1967 Comments Main paper 1955 a bird with some resemblance to a Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus was captured on Fair Isle, Shetland, and proved to be a Thick-billed Warbler Phragmaticola aedon*, a vagrant from south-east Asia not previously found in Europe (William*T...

Swifts in sea-breeze fronts

01 June 1967 Comments Main paper G L I D E R P I L O T S often find themselves sharing rising currents of air with birds, sometimes to considerable heights. A source of upcurrents which has been found and used more extensively in recent years is the rising air at the sea-breeze front. Tw...

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