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01 September 1969 Comments Reviews Handbuch der Vogel Mitteleuropas. Vols 2 and 3. Anseriformes. Edited by K. M. Bauer and U. N. Glutz von Blotzheim. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main. Vol 2 (1968): 535 P a g es > 5 colour plates; 76 text-figures and maps. Vol 5 (1969): 50...

Notes

01 September 1969 Comments Notes Fish jumping into Heron's mouth On 16th August 1969, at Talybont Reservoir, Breconshire, we saw a Heron Ardea cinerea standing on the edge of a small concrete 'waterfall' about two feet high; it was leaning forward in such a manner that its open bill was ...

Studies of less familiar birds: 155. Little Stint

01 September 1969 Comments Main paper Plates ]j-6o The Little Stint Calidris minuta is regular on passage in Britain and Ireland, chiefly in autumn (late July to mid-October) but also in small numbers in spring (mid-April to early June). In some autumns it is abundant, with flocks running int...

The Hastings Rarities again

01 September 1969 Comments Main paper It was only to be expected that the searching review of the Hastings Rarities in August 1962 (Nelder 1962, Nicholson and Ferguson-Lees 1962) would, in certain circles, cause considerable distress and a desire to rebut, if possible, the arguments which led...

Status and breeding success of Golden Eagles in north-west Sutherland in 1967

01 September 1969 Comments Main paper In recent years the status of the Golden Eagle Aquila chrjsaetos in Scotland has been the subject of concern. Lockie and Ratcliffe (1964) found that the breeding success in Wester Ross fell from about 70% of pairs in 1937-60 to about 30% in 1960-63. At th...

Exhibition by contemporary bird painters

01 November 1960 Comments Editorials A T T H E S U G G E S T I O N of the Reading Ornithological Club, the Reading Art Gallery has made its rooms available for an exhibition of contemporary bird paintings. This Exhibition was opened by Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, K.G., G.C.B., O.M., o...

Recent Reports and News

01 November 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Letters

01 November 1960 Comments Letters "Kestrel pellets at a winter roost" Sirs,--I read with interest the paper by T. A. W. Davis on his examination of pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) at winter roosts in Pembrokeshire {Brit. Birds, 53: 281-284). May I, however, make one small correcti...

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01 November 1960 Comments Reviews St. Kilda Summer. By Kenneth Williamson and J. Morton Boyd. Hutchinson, London, 1960. 224 p a g e s ; with photographs, drawings and maps. 25 s. For 27 years after its inhabitants had been evacuated at their own request, St. Kilda was visited only infrequ...

Studies of less familiar birds 108. Little Crake

01 November 1960 Comments Main paper ornithologists turned their attention to live birds. In fact there is possibly no other group, at least in Europe, whose numbers and distribution are shrouded in such uncertainty. Therefore, when the editors obtained some photographs of the Little Crake (...

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Studies of less familiar birds: 155. Little Stint

The Hastings Rarities again

Status and breeding success of Golden Eagles in north-west Sutherland in 1967

Exhibition by contemporary bird painters

Recent Reports and News

Letters

Reviews

Studies of less familiar birds 108. Little Crake

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