Notes

01 May 1955
Comments Notes Exceptional passage of Cory's Shearwaters off Co. Cork.--During the late afternoon of 10th August 1962 a routine sea-watch from a hundred feet above sea level at Pointanbullig, one of the southern points of Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, revealed an unusual...
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Notes

01 May 1955
Comments Notes The " Dungeness " ringing pliers.--Designed at Dungeness Bird Observatory to facilitate neat and quick ringing, the pliers shown on plate 31 have met with a good reception by many ringers and it is felt that those who have not yet tried them might be inte...
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Notes

01 September 1939
Comments Notes PROOF of the sex of the bird choosing the nesting-site is generally so difficult to obtain that it seems worth while to record some evidence in the case of a House-Sparrow (Passer d. domesticus) in my garden in the spring of 1939. Early in March I notice...
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