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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...

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01 July 1958 Comments Notes Magpie burying and recovering food.--With reference to the note by Derek Goodwin on " J a y s and Carrion Crows recovering hidden food" (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 181-183) and other comparable observations, a note on this habit in the Magpie (Pica pica) may...

The Moult migration of the Shelduck from Cheshire in 1957

01 July 1958 Comments Main paper IN 1957, observations were made for the eighth year in succession on the departure flights of Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) from the River Mersey estuary at W e s t o n , near Runcorn, Cheshire, and details are given in Table I. The moult migration in 1955 a...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XC. Frigate Petrel

01 July 1958 Comments Main paper (Plates 41-44) ACCORDING to The Handbook two specimens of the Frigate Petrel (Pelagodroma marina), or White-faced Storm Petrel as it is called in the regions where it breeds, have occurred in Britain. One was found dead at Walney Island, Lancashire, in No...

Mortality of Kittiwakes during the breeding season

01 July 1958 Comments Main paper (Department of Zoology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth) In connection with the survey of winter wrecks of Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) (see pp. 253-266) it is of interest to note that several instances of mass mortality have occurred in recent ...

The wreck of Kittiwakes in Early 1957

01 July 1958 Comments Main paper T H E KITTIWAKE (Rissa tridactyla) is an oceanic bird which breeds along the North Atlantic shores, down to about 40Â°N. At the end of the breeding season the birds move out to the open Atlantic and during the winter months they are found chiefly betwee...

Recent reports and news

01 July 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated, records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of s...

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Notes

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

Notes

The Moult migration of the Shelduck from Cheshire in 1957

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XC. Frigate Petrel

Mortality of Kittiwakes during the breeding season

The wreck of Kittiwakes in Early 1957

Recent reports and news

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