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Mystery photographs

01 August 1977 Comments Main paper Scanning through an autumn party of common Calidris waders, one seems smaller and quicker than its companions. It lacks, however, the compactness and constant activity of a stint and, because it looks noticeably long in outline, is rather a puzzle. Att...

Personalities. 8. Bernard King

01 August 1977 Comments Main paper Bernard King's name must be one of the most familiar to readers of this journal: his regular contributions, mostly in the 'Notes' section, started in 1942 with 'Unusual migrants in Surrey' (Brit. Birds 36: 76) and the latest—the 113th!—appears in t...

'Fly-away trick' of some arctic waders

01 August 1977 Comments Main paper Waders have several ploys to confuse potential predators; the 'fly-away trick' has apparently not been described before. During 1973-76, I studied the breeding biology of waders in northeast Greenland: in Peary Land, Scoresby Sund, Danmar...

Little Gulls nesting on the Ouse Washes

01 August 1977 Comments Main paper The first confirmed nesting in Britain of this attractive gull unfortunately ended in disaster. Up to five Little Gulls Larus minutus had been recorded on the Ouse Washes, Cambridgeshire/Norfolk, in autumn in three of the seven year...

Breeding biology of Long-eared Owls

01 August 1977 Comments Main paper The Long-eared Owl is notoriously elusive during the nesting season. As with other owls, published information on its breeding biology is sparse. This paper draws on details from four sources: (i) 218 cards submitted to the British Trust for Ornit...

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),'...

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