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01 November 1964 Comments News and comment Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve.--The ancient name Lindisfame has been officially revived by the Nature Conservancy in its declaration of the first part of a new reserve on the Northumberland coast. This includes the sand-dunes on Holy Island, togethe...

Reviews

01 November 1964 Comments Reviews T h e World of Birds. By James Fisher and Roger Tory Peterson. 288 pages, including 90 with colour lithograph plates of nearly 700 species, more than 200 maps and many half-tone illustrations. Macdonald, London, 1964. 5 gns. Contrary to some expectations,...

Notes

01 November 1964 Comments Notes Manx Shearwater as prey of Peregrine in central Scotland.--On 12th June 1964, near Cairngorm, Inverness-shire, I discovered the remains of an adult Manx Shearwater Procellaria puffinus in the eyrie of a pair of Peregrines Falco peregrinus. The body had be...

Studies of less familiar birds 130. White-tailed Eagle

01 November 1964 Comments Main paper Pandion haliaetus as a breeding species in Scotland, there has been a certain amount of speculation on the possibilities of the return of the White-tailed Eagle Haliaetus albicilla to one of its ancestral haunts. From being at one time commoner than t h e...

The influence of radio waves upon bird

01 November 1964 Comments Main paper The seasonal migration of birds of many species is an established fact, but the means whereby they are able to navigate over the vast distances involved remains a largely unsolved problem which has been reviewed in detail by Matthews (1955) and Dorst (196...

Letters

01 November 1964 Comments Letters SIRS,--It would be interesting to know if the reports published in the popular Press earlier this year stating that large numbers of Rooks were making daily incursions to the Romney Marshes from the French coast, have ever been verified by a competent orn...

Notes

01 June 1946 Comments Notes WITH reference to Lt.-Col. B. H. Ryves's statement (antea, p. 43) that all species of buntings are absent in the Scillies, it may be of interest to record that my husband and I saw and heard several Corn-Buntings {Emberiza calandra) in song on St. Agnes,...

Studies of some Species rarely Photographed. V. The Three-toed Woodpecker

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper Photographed 6y H. N. SOUTHERN. (Plates 21-22). T H E Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) is one of the birds of Western Europe of which there is no good evidence t h a t it has occurred in the British Isles, though Donovan's History of British ...

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper THIS is the ninth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence by H. F. Witherby published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The Committee has been reconsti...

Birds of inner London

01 June 1946 Comments Main paper D U R I N G the year under review (1945), there has been one new record for Inner London, viz., t h e White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons), a flock of this species having been seen by Mrs. Rait Kerr crossing over Lords on February 17th. Mr. Holte Macpher...

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Studies of less familiar birds 130. White-tailed Eagle

The influence of radio waves upon bird

Letters

Notes

Studies of some Species rarely Photographed. V. The Three-toed Woodpecker

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

Birds of inner London

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