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01 March 1970 Comments Notes Somersaulting behaviour of Canada Geese On ist February 1970 we were members of a party of more than 20 people who witnessed an extraordinary performance by about 200 Canada Geese Branta canadensis which we had watched coming down on Ellesmere, Shropshire...

The first ten years of the Rarities Committee

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper This survey is concerned with the efforts of the editors of this journal, and of the Rarities Committee set up by them in 1959s to collect, investigate, judge and publish annually in one document the essential details of all the rarer vagrants seen in Bri...

More examples of the best recent work by British-photographers

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper Plates 16-23 This is the eleventh annual selection of the best contemporary work by British bird-photographers. Six of the species and three of the photographers are new to the series which has therefore now included 150 photographs of 104 species by 59 p...

Effect of 'Hamilton Trader' oil on birds in the Irish Sea in May 1969

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper Just before dawn on 30th April 1969 the tanker Hamilton Trader was damaged in a collision with a German coaster near the Bar light vessel in Liverpool Bay. About 700 tons of heavy fuel oil were spilled into the sea. This incident provided an opportunity t...

REVIEW. The Literature of the Charadriiformes from 1894 to 1928

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MOVEMENTS OF RINGED BIRDS FROM ABROAD TO THE BRITISH ISLANDS AND FROM THE BRITISH ISLANDS ABROAD

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01 October 1931 Comments Letters SIRS,--Anomalous eggs of t h e type of which t h e accompanying photograph is an example, although of course well known, are of sufficient interest to warrant publication. The present specimen, for which I am indebted to Dr. P. MansonBahr, was laid by a d...

Review

01 October 1931 Comments Reviews The Literature of the Charadriiformes from 1894 to 1928. By G. Carmichael Low. 2nd Ed., revised and enlarged, pp. xiv. 637. (Witherby.) 12s. 6d. net. 1931. D R . LOW has rendered a great service to ornithology by attempting a herculean task, and if the re...

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The first ten years of the Rarities Committee

More examples of the best recent work by British-photographers

Effect of 'Hamilton Trader' oil on birds in the Irish Sea in May 1969

REVIEW. The Literature of the Charadriiformes from 1894 to 1928

LETTER

MOVEMENTS OF RINGED BIRDS FROM ABROAD TO THE BRITISH ISLANDS AND FROM THE BRITISH ISLANDS ABROAD

NOTES

Letter

Review

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