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Flight identification of European raptors

01 November 1973 Comments Main paper In this, the final part of the series, we deal with the two remaining falcons, the three Acripiter hawks and the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus. These six species are divided into two groups--the kestrels and Black-winged Kite, and the Accipiters. ...

The breeding birds of a New Forest valley

01 November 1973 Comments Main paper The extensive heaths, unenclosed woodlands and valley bogs of the New Forest, Hampshire, are of outstanding scientific interest and collectively form the largest remaining tract of 'semi-natural' or 'unsown' vegetation in lowland Britain. The Forest wa...

Recent Reports

01 November 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary deals mainly with August, a month in which strong westerly winds in the first week brought in a number of American waders. However, anticyclonic conditions thereafter prod...

Reviews

01 November 1973 Comments Reviews The Natural History of Cape Clear Island. Edited by J. T. R. Sharrock. T. & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1973. 208 pages; 18 photographs; many maps, diagrams and line-drawings. £3.00. Since 1959 Cape Clear has established itself as a major European bi...

Notes

01 November 1973 Comments Notes Unusual behaviour of Black-necked Grebe From 6th to 15th October 1969, I daily observed a Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis in the harbour of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. When undisturbed by passing boats, it frequently dived and fed insid...

Seasonal fluctuations in the song of the Sky-Lark

01 February 1947 Comments Main paper ALTHOUGH a great deal has been written on the subject of bird song, relatively little is known about seasonal and daily fluctuations in song output. Alexander's [i, 2] work accounts for a very large number of species and gives the dates between which bir...

Letters

01 February 1947 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference to Colonel Ryves's note (antea, Vol. xxxix, p. 375} oa a clutch of two eggs only, of the Blackbird (Turdus Â»Â». merula), I wish to point out that this number of eggs for a full clutch is not extremely abnormal. I cannot but thin...

Reviews

01 February 1947 Comments Reviews South-Eastern Bird Report, being an Account of Bird-Life in Kent, Surrey and Sussex during 1944. Edited by Ralph Whitlock. Ditto (including Hampshire) for 1945. THE 1944 South-Eastern Report, delayed by printing difficulties, was not available when our no...

Notes

01 February 1947 Comments Notes ON April ioth, 1946, at Englefield Green, Surrey, I watched a Starling (Sturnus v. vulgaris) singing on the ground, everywhere following another which, completely ignoring him, was busily engaged in feeding. Each time the feeding bird stopped, the singer...

Blue Snow-Geese in Co. Wexford

01 February 1947 Comments Main paper ON January 8th, 1946, at the end of a long day on the North Slob, Co. Wexford, Ireland, and with light beginning to fail, we saw two geese amongst a large flock of Grey Lag-Geese (Anser a. anser) which had what appeared abnormal marking of the head and n...

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Flight identification of European raptors

The breeding birds of a New Forest valley

Recent Reports

Reviews

Notes

Seasonal fluctuations in the song of the Sky-Lark

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Blue Snow-Geese in Co. Wexford

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