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Recent reports: September to December

01 February 1966 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary contiaues the one published ia December (firit. Birds, 58: 527-528) and is confined to the rarities in the last quarter of 1965. The great fall of migrants in early September wa...

News and comment

01 February 1966 Comments News and comment Ornithological news from the U.S.S.R.--The 4th All-Union Ornithological Conference, held in the beautiful central Asian city of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R., from 1st to 7th September 1965, was attended by 263 delegates, three of whom came from western ...

Letters

01 February 1966 Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...

Reviews

01 February 1966 Comments Reviews Fait Isle and its Birds. By Kenneth Williamson. With 'A List of the Birds of Fair Isle' by Peter Davis. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1965. xvi+311 pages; 27 photographs (16 plates); 17 text-figures and maps. 30s. Over 60 years ago Dr. William Eagl...

Notes

01 February 1966 Comments Notes Swifts roosting o n poles.---At dusk on 4th September 1965, near the field station on Walney Island, Lancashire, J. Wilson, B. Sutton and I saw a Swift Apus apus repeatedly fly at a telegraph pole and then even tually land on it. It apparently settled the...

Movements of British Robins as shown by ringing

01 February 1966 Comments Main paper British Trust for Ornithology L A c K ( I 944) showed from analysis of ringing recoveries that British Robins Erithacus rubuula are partial migrants. Most of the winter recoveries he analysed were local, but a small proportion of the birds had migrated so...

British bird photographers. 6. H. G. Wagstaff

01 February 1966 Comments Main paper (Plates 9-16) L I K E MANY OTHER naturalists, Hugh Wagstaff first became interested in birds through collecting eggs as a boy. In June 1908 he and two friends arranged to visit Anglesey during the nesting season and almost at the last moment another frien...

Post-mortems of Peregrines and Lanners with particular reference to organochlorine residues

01 February 1966 Comments Main paper 1962, when the enquiry into the status of the Peregrine Fako peregrinus was completed (Ratcliffe 1963), there has been widespread concern about the decline of this species in Great Britain. Ratcliffe found strong circumstantial evidence that the persisten...

Reviews

01 March 1961 Comments Reviews Atlas of European Birds. By K. H . Voous. N e l s o n , London, i960. 284 pages; 419 maps and 355 photographs. 70s. One of the post-war developments in ornithology has been the attention given to bird distribution. There has been a growing realisation of ...

Notes

01 March 1961 Comments Notes Beetles in the plumage of birds.--On 25 th May 1959 I picked up a freshly dead Swift (Apus apus) on the sloping concrete bank of Hilfield Park Reservoir, Hertfordshire. On examining the bird I discovered a single beetle of the species Haltka ohracearighti...

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Recent reports: September to December

News and comment

Letters

Reviews

Notes

Movements of British Robins as shown by ringing

British bird photographers. 6. H. G. Wagstaff

Post-mortems of Peregrines and Lanners with particular reference to organochlorine residues

Reviews

Notes

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