Notes

01 October 1972
Comments Notes Great Blue Herons coming on board ships in mid-Atlantic In late November 1968 reports appeared in the Bristol press that a heron had arrived at Avonmouth on a British merchantman, M.V. Pkardy, and had been taken to Rode Tropical Bird Gardens at Frome, Som...
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Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972
Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...
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Letters

01 January 1947
Comments Letters SIRS.--dingers who t r a p adult or first-winter Starlings during January t o March would serve a very useful purpose by noting whether t h e eye is entirely dark or has a narrow light ring, and t h e « x t e n t t o which t h e bill has begun t o turn...
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Reviews

01 January 1947
Comments Reviews The Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist: Notes on the Local Fauna and Flora for 1945. By N. F . Ticehurst (Recorder). T H I S interesting area again produces a number of noteworthy records. The chief ornithological event mentioned is the breeding of Black...
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Notes

01 January 1947
Comments Notes As INSTANCES of "injury-feigning" on the part of the Meadow-Pipit (Anthus pratensis) are rare the following may be worth recording. On June 15th, 1946, in Co. Kerry, I disturbed a Meadow-Pipit from its nest, which contained five eggs. The bird flew a dis...
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