01 September 2019CommentsMain paper
Martin Perrow, Andrew Harwood, Richard Berridge, Brian Burke, Stephen Newton and Daniel Piec
Abstract Rockabill, in Co. Dublin, supports the most important colony of Roseate Ter...
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01 September 2019CommentsMain paper
Andy Stoddart and J. Martin Collinson
Abstract Recent taxonomic changes to ‘Eastern Stonechats’ have separated Stejneger’s Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri from the five taxa...
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01 September 1971CommentsMain paper
Since 1937, observations on Buzzards Buteo buteo breeding within ten miles of Sedbergh, Yorkshire, have been recorded by the Sedgwick Society of Sedbergh School. The present paper shows the results of an analysis of these records, supplemented by my own o...
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01 September 1971CommentsMain paper
Plates 61-63 The 28 species of Old World orioles (Oriolidae) form a remarkably homogenous group of arboreal passerines of wide distribution over Africa, Eurasia and Australasia. Systematically they are placed between the drongos (Dicruridae) and the crows...
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01 September 1971CommentsMain paper
The natural occurrence of North American birds in Europe is a wellestablished fact substantiated by recoveries of ringed birds. The transatlantic crossings of waders and passerines have been excellently treated by Nisbet (1959, 1963) and, more recently, b...
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01 September 1971CommentsMain paper
frugilegus in Nottinghamshire in 1962 and compares the figures with those from four other censuses in the previous 34 years. The first counts were made by A. Roebuck in 1928 (Roebuck 1933) and again in 1932. There was then a wartime census by A. I. H. Doc...
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01 September 1971CommentsMain paper
C E T T I ' S W A R B L E R Cettia cetti, named after an 18th century Italian Jesuit zoologist (see Macleod 1954), is unique in various ways. Apart from being the sole species in a subgenus characterised by long, soft plumage and a very rounded tail with ...
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01 September 1971CommentsMain paper
N E A R L Y A L L OF 2,546 Swifts Apus apus caught at Rye Meads Sewage Purification Works, Hertfordshire, in the late spring and summer of 1962 (845) and 1963 (1,701) were weighed and examined before being ringed and released. The pattern of the weights w...
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01 September 1971CommentsMain paper
Nature Conservancy Unit of Grouse Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and Moorland Ecology for Scotland, Scientific Services O N 12TH A P R I L 1963 a female Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos was found dead on the ground about 2 5 o metres from a pine-tr...
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