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Personalities. 1 P. J. Grant

01 January 1977 Comments Main paper In this new, regular feature, the aim is to put a face and a personality to well-known British and Irish ornithologists who ma y be only name s to many readers Peter James Grant—Peter to his birdwatching friends, Jimmy to his family—is an o...

Studies of less familiar birds 181 Turnstone

01 January 1977 Comments Main paper The breeding range of the Turnstone Arenaria interpres is circumpolar Holarctic. The typical race A. i. interpres breeds on Ellesmere Island in Canada, in Greenland north to 83°N, in Spitsbergen, and from western Norway around the north coast of Scand...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 1975

01 January 1977 Comments Main paper This is the third report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel. The functions and methods of operation were identical to those described in detail in the first report {Brit. Birds 68: 5-23). The members of the panel during 1975 remained the same as ...

The incubation and fledging-periods of the Razorbill

01 April 1948 Comments Main paper THE incubation-period of the British Razorbill (Alca tarda britannica) does not appear to have been accurately recorded. The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. v, p. 146), quotes the incubation-period as "25 days in incubator (F. G. Paynter), 26-30 (O. A. J....

Bird life on Pett level floods, 1941-1943

01 April 1948 Comments Main paper {concluded from p. 70). 1942 {continued). On February 4th, while in a hide, well in the middle of the water, I identified seven Long-tailed Ducks. They came within a few yards of me and two of them were adult drakes, the first I had seen in Sussex. They w...

Further notes on Clutch and brood size in the Robin

01 April 1948 Comments Main paper THE following paper on the breeding biology of the Robin (Erithacus rubecula) is a sequel to that published earlier (Lack, 1946), knowledge of which is assumed. In addition to nesting records for 1946, a number of additional records were received for past...

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