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Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper O N August 7th, 1944, while studying birds on the salt-marsh round Tetney Creek, Lines., on the Humber estuary, I observed two or three smallish diving-duck which puzzled me ; and on August 8th, independently, S/Ldr. Peter Hill saw the birds in the same p...

Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper THROUGH the kindness of Mr. M. C. Harman, the owner, and by permission of the Admiralty the writers were able to spend from July 2nd to loth, 1942, on Lundy. The primary object was to investigate the status of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus p. puffinus),'...

A Survey of the Rooks in the Midlands

01 June 1933 Comments Main paper THE Rook (Corvus f. frugilegus) is an essential part of the English country-side. Its large size, its characteristic cawings and its habit of appearing in flocks all the year round compel attention. Although an arboreal species, so far as nesting is conce...

Alterations to the British List

01 June 1933 Comments Main paper I N J u n e , 1932 (Vol. X X V I . , p. 16), we gave a complete list of the additions and alterations to the British List since the publication of the Practical Handbook. Since then the alterations given below have been agreed upon by the British Ornithol...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad. Addenda II

01 May 1933 Comments Main paper This is a continuation of our series of articles under this heading in Volume XXV.*, and contains all the records which have come under our notice since then, and of which we have been able to obtain details. We have again to express our great indebtednes...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 May 1933 Comments Main paper No. Place and Date Ringed. Place and Date Recovered. CORMORANT {Phalacrocorax c. carbo). 109436 Badcall Is. (Suth.), 27.6.32, Near Culross (Fife), 10.12.32, young, by E. C. Sharp. by K. Tullis. 109439 Ditto 27.6.32. Near Dalcross (Inverness.), 11.3.33, by...

Notes on Coots

01 May 1933 Comments Main paper IN 1932 many more nests of the Coot (Fulica a. ater) were built on Fetcham Pond, Leatherhead, than I had seen in the previous five years in which I have had the pond under observation. In 1930 there were six nests with 15 young; in 1931 ten nests with 12 ...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 April 1933 Comments Main paper --Birds re-trapped and released again are omitted here and will be published in a separate list. No. J08365 Place and Date Ri Place and Date Recovered. RAVEN (Corvus c. corax). Dumfriesshire, 15.4.32, Near West Linton (Peebles), young, by T. K. Craven. 17...

Ornithological Report for Norfolk for 1932

01 April 1933 Comments Main paper I TAKE this opportunity of thanking all my correspondents, both old and new, who have sent me their notes for 1932. The study of birds, once the interest of the few and even regarded as somewhat eccentric, is now, in this county at least, an exceedingly p...

The "British Birds" Marking Scheme. Progress for 1932

01 March 1933 Comments Main paper FOR the fifth year in succession I have the pleasure to record a larger number of birds ringed under our scheme than in any previous year. It is also satisfactory to note that the increase in 1932 over 1931 is largely in trapped birds, which have risen to...

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Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

A Survey of the Rooks in the Midlands

Alterations to the British List

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad. Addenda II

Recovery of Marked Birds

Notes on Coots

Recovery of Marked Birds

Ornithological Report for Norfolk for 1932

The "British Birds" Marking Scheme. Progress for 1932

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