Letters

01 December 1976
Comments Letters Migration in the doldrums D. I. M. Wallace expressed an atavistic 'Viewpoint' (Brit. Birds, 68: 202-203) that it was time for 'a resumption of migration studies related to conservation', and suggested setting up a working party to promote it. T...
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Notes

01 June 1967
Comments Notes Barn Owl perching on man.--On 14th December 1966, at 3 p.m., I was digging a ditch on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' reserve at Leighton Moss, Lancashire, when I saw a Barn Owl Tjto alba hunting along the hedgerow. It soon dropped on to a ...
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Notes

01 May 1955
Comments Notes The " Dungeness " ringing pliers.--Designed at Dungeness Bird Observatory to facilitate neat and quick ringing, the pliers shown on plate 31 have met with a good reception by many ringers and it is felt that those who have not yet tried them might be inte...
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Notes

01 January 1952
Comments Notes Effect of a snow-storm on breeding birds.--With reference to the article on this subject (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 57-59), Mr. C. E. BruceGardyne reports that in April, 1949, he had under observation nests of a Blackbird (Turdus merula) and a Song-Thrush (T...
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