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01 July 1952 Comments Reviews The Greenshank. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson (Collins, 1951). 15s. In The Handbook's account of the Greenshank it was evident t h a t much of our knowledge of the species was due to Mr. Nethersole-Thompson, but it needed the publication of this book to ...

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01 July 1952 Comments Notes Long-tailed Tits' unorthodox nesting arrangements.--On April 21st, 1951, the writers found the nest of a Long-tailed Tit (Mgithalos caudatus) in the main fork of an apple tree near Brandon, Suffolk. Such a site' is unusual in East Anglia, and the nest ha...

Reports on the movements of some commoner summer migrants at British Bird observatories in 1951

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper As already mentioned, these reports are confined to the spring migration. The expression " Bird/Days," as used last year, represents the sum of the birds recorded each day, and as individuals may stay for more than one day it does not necessarily represe...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLI. The Black Woodpecker, The White-backed Woodpecker

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper THE WHITE-BACKED WOODPECKER. Photographed by P. O. SWANBERG. (Plates 53-59). W E are indebted to P. O. Swanberg for photographs of the Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) taken in Sweden, and to Jb. v. d. Peppel and J. P. Strijbos for Dutch material. The...

Report from bird observatories, 1951

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper more we are indebted to those in charge of the Bird Observatories for a series of reports on their work. This year we are glad to include reports from Monks' House on the Northumberland coast and from Jersey, where new Observatories have been opened. We ...

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater in Scilly: A new British bird

01 July 1952 Comments Main paper MANY of our readers are probably aware that a new species, the Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops superciliosus) was added to the British list last year. Publication of the record has been delayed as it was felt that the occasion demanded a coloured plate. W...

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...

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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...

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Reports on the movements of some commoner summer migrants at British Bird observatories in 1951

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XLI. The Black Woodpecker, The White-backed Woodpecker

Report from bird observatories, 1951

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater in Scilly: A new British bird

Seasonal fluctuations in the song of the Sky-Lark

Letters

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Notes

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