Report on the Immigration of Summer Residents in the Spring of 1907
Report on the IMMIGRATION OF SUMMER RESIDENTS IN THE SPRING OF 1907
Also Notes on the Migratory Movements during the Autumn of 1906.
By the Committee appointed by the BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. October 1908. Pp. l-202, maps. = Bulletin British Orn. Club, Vol. XXII.
This is the third of a series of annual reports dealing with the migration of birds into the British Isles, issued by the British Ornithologists’ Club. In an introduction of thirty-six pages the species treated are divided into four classes, according to the part of the coast on which they arrive, the daily weather conditions from March 14 to May 31 are tabulated, and the details of the chief movements as observed at the various lighthouses are given. In the body of the work thirty-three species are treated in detail, each with a chronological summary of the records, including dates of nesting, all but three with maps showing time and place of arrival, and there is a long list of unscheduled birds treated much more briefly. There are brief notes on the fall movements of 1906, covering twenty-five species, among which we note the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) treated apparently as a migrant, which is rather surprising to those familiar with the species in this country only, where it is resident wherever found. The report is strictly a tabulation of information received, generalizations being reserved for some future time when a sufficient mass of data shall have been accumulated.
