Volume 57 Issue 12 | British Birds

Crossbills in Britain and Ireland in 1963

01 December 1964 Comments Main paper T H E I R R U P T I O N S O F Crossbills Loxia spp. into Britain in the summer and autumn of 1962 were described by Williamson (1963a), the account being supplemented by a list of records up to the end of the year (Williamson 1963b). The midsummer arrival...

Letters

01 December 1964 Comments Letters SIRS,--While not seeking to prolong this correspondence unduly, for there is more than a grain of truth on either side, I feel that some reply is called for to Mr. Reginald Wagstaffe's letter (antea, pp. 319-320). May I point out at once that I do not dis...

Reviews

01 December 1964 Comments Reviews A Revised List of the Birds of Oxfordshire. By W. B. Alexander. Printed for the Oxford Ornithological Society, 1947. Price 2s. _ It is possible that in recent years too much emphasis has been thrown on the differences between species and sub-species. They...

Notes

01 December 1964 Comments Notes THESE notes on Ravens (Corvus c. corax) observed by me in flocks in the Lake District are intended to amplify some of the points referred to in my article on this subject (antea, pp. 290-294). The word "flock" had been used by others and seemed to be the...

Recent reports

01 December 1964 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary outlines the rarer passerines in the two months from 19th September to 19th November, thus overlapping slightly with the previous one {Brit. Birds, 57: 441-444); the more regula...

The Little Ringed Plover in Yorkshire

01 December 1964 Comments Main paper T H E Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius curonicus) was first noted in Yorkshire in 1947; and breeding was proved in 1948, for the first time in the north of England. The site was an area of shale and water in the W e s t Riding. J. E. Beckerlegge, ...

News and comment

01 December 1964 Comments News and comment launches a major appeal.--The British Trust for Ornithology has launched an appeal aimed at raising £25,000. It is made in a brochure (splendidly designed by Robert Gillmor) which gives a concise history of the Trust and outlines its need for a sou...

The Little Ringed Plover in Southern England in 1948

01 December 1964 Comments Main paper IN 1948 the Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius curonicus) bred in Southern England for the fifth year in succession and there was a further extension of range. As in previous years the main concentration was within twenty miles around London, where a...

Review

01 December 1964 Comments Reviews The Black-tailed Godwit. By F. Haverschmidt. Brill, Leiden, 1963. v i i i + 1 2 0 pages; frontispiece, 17 black-and-white photographs, 1 drawing and 2 maps. N o price marked. The author intended this book for ordinary bird-lovers and general ornithologist...

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed: XVI. The Flamingo

01 December 1964 Comments Main paper Photographed by W. E. HIGHAM, T. W. B, JEANS, H. A. PATRICK AND G. K. YEATES. (Plates 61-69.) W E particularly welcome the opportunity of publishing a selection of the remarkable series of photographs · of Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) taken by Mr. Y...

Notes

01 December 1964 Comments Notes Apparent anting by Kestrel.--On 22nd September 1962 a friend and I were driving along the main road between Port Clarence and Seaton Carew, Co. Durham, when we saw a female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus fly up from an adjacent strip of rough grassland and ali...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 December 1964 Comments Main paper Aultbea (Ross), 17.11.47, by Trondheim, Norway, 20.5.48. P . A. Rayfield. E d i n b u r g h , 28.2.48, b y Naerland, (Jaeren) Norway, Midlothian O.C. 30.5.48. Cleveleys (Lanes.) , 10.2.47, by Durham 23.3.48. [85 m. N.E.] R. M. Band. Ditto 10.11.47 Mouth o...

Pallas's Warblers in Britain in 1963

01 December 1964 Comments Main paper U P TO 1963 Pallas's Warbler Phylloscopnsproregulus has been found in the British Isles on only seven occasions, all in October and November on the English east coast between Northumberland and Kent. During late October and early November 1963, however, a...

The influx of Cranes in October 1963

01 December 1964 Comments Main paper Cranes Megalornis grus recorded in Britain. Even so, in the five years from 1958 to 1962 only about 50 were reported and the largest number together was six. Thus the influx of some hundreds of these birds towards the end of October 1963 was unique in mod...

British bird-photographers 3. J. B. and S. Bottomley

01 December 1964 Comments Main paper photographic team. They take turns in hides, and in the dark room develop the negatives together before one operates the enlarger while the other makes the prints. Brian was born in 1919 in Halifax, Yorkshire, and on leaving school joined the Army. During...

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