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01 May 1976 Comments Reviews Flamingos. Edited by Janet Kear and Nicole Duplaix-Hall. T, & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1975. 246 pages; seven colour plates; 48 black-and-white plates; numerous drawings, maps and diagrams, £8.00. In July 1973 an international gathering ... Read More

Breeding biology of Sanderlings in north-east Greenland

01 May 1976 Comments Main paper In the first detailed account of breeding Sanderlings Calidris alba, Manniche (1910) reported that only females incubated and attended the chicks. Other observers did not always agree, because both males and females were shot at the nest and one or two... Read More

Report on bird ringing for 1951

01 August 1952 Comments Main paper Bird-Ringing Committee, British Trust for Ornithology. This is the fifteenth r e p o r t ! issued on behalf of the Committee, continuing; the earlier sequence under the title " T h e British Birds Marking S c h e m e . " It is in the form instituted last ... Read More

The post-fledging dispersal of Juvenile Titmice

01 August 1952 Comments Main paper T H E dispersal of young' birds away from their birth-places has been studied for a number of species by different authors. Kluijver (1951), Koskimies (1948), Kratzig (1939) and Plattner & Sutter (1946, 1947) have all made studies of dispersal in the Grea... Read More