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Studies of less familiar birds. 144. Thick-billed Warbler

01 June 1967 Comments Main paper 1955 a bird with some resemblance to a Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus was captured on Fair Isle, Shetland, and proved to be a Thick-billed Warbler Phragmaticola aedon*, a vagrant from south-east Asia not previously found in Europe (William*T...

Swifts in sea-breeze fronts

01 June 1967 Comments Main paper G L I D E R P I L O T S often find themselves sharing rising currents of air with birds, sometimes to considerable heights. A source of upcurrents which has been found and used more extensively in recent years is the rising air at the sea-breeze front. Tw...

Reviews

01 June 1967 Comments Reviews Animal Navigation. By R. M. Lockley. Pan Books, London, 1967. 205 pages; 25 text-figures. 6s. Ornithologists are apt to think of animal navigation as being about the spectacular homing journeys of birds. In this book the author interprets the term very br...

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 ...

Territory, behaviour and breeding of the Dipper in Banffshire

01 June 1967 Comments Main paper September 1959 and December 1964 27 adult and 38 nestling Dippers Cinclus cinclus were colour-ringed on the River Isla in Banffshire to investigate their behaviour and movements. Work on this species by Balat (1962, 1964) in Czechoslovakia and on the Amer...

News and comment

01 June 1967 Comments News and comment launches major appeal fund.--With an eye set firmly on a target of £100,000, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has now launched what must surely be the most ambitious appeal fund ever made by- a voluntary natural history body in this co...

Letters

01 June 1967 Comments Letters Little Ringed Plovers in Britain during 1963-67 Sirs,--My last report on the increase and spread of the Litde Ringed Plover Cbaradrius dubius in Britain covered the years 1960-62 (Brit. Birds, 57: 191-198), although some information up to 1965 has been gi...

News and comment

01 January 1966 Comments News and comment Change in chairmanship of Bird Ringing Committee.---The retirement of Sir Landsborough Thomson as chairman of the Ringing and Migration Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology marks the end of an association which goes back to the very beginning of...

Letters

01 January 1966 Comments Letters Birds trapped by sludge or m u d Sirs,--I was most interested to read the note by G. L. Webber {Brit. Birds, 5 8: 296-297) on 'Birds trapped by sludge on a sewage farm'. I have found at Freckleton sewage farm and various other sites in Lancashire, includi...

Reviews

01 January 1966 Comments Reviews The Life of the Robin. By David Lack. Drawings by Robert Gillmor. Witherby, London, 1965 (revised edition). 240 pages; numerous line drawings. 30s. Of the scientific bird books published in the last 2 5 years, The Life of the Robin is surely the most read...

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Studies of less familiar birds. 144. Thick-billed Warbler

Swifts in sea-breeze fronts

Reviews

Notes

Territory, behaviour and breeding of the Dipper in Banffshire

News and comment

Letters

News and comment

Letters

Reviews

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