SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR BIRD STUDY. Ill 



(5) We may now group the birds found in our islands as 



Residents. Even amongst these there is much migration 

 of a kind. The redbreast, for example, migrates from one 

 part of the country to another. Blackheaded gulls breed 

 on inland marshes and migrate to the sea-shore in winter. 

 The curlew and dunlin perform a similar movement. 

 Oyster Catchers move from river to shore and vice versa. 

 And there are many other less definite comings and goings. 

 Thrush, Blackbird, Tits, Hedge- sparrow, Sparrow, Linnet, 

 Bullfinch, Yellow Hammer, Chaffinch, Starling, Crow, 

 Jackdaw, Magpie, Skylark ; Barn, Long Eared, and Tawny 

 Owls ; Sparrow Hawk, Merlin, Kestrel, Lapwing are 

 amongst the commonest of our smaller resident birds. 



Summer Visitors. Eedstart, Nightingale, Spotted Fly 

 Catcher, Swallow, Martin, Sand Martin, Swift, Cuckoo, 

 Wheatear, Corn-crake are some of the most familiar. 



Winter Visitors. Fieldfare, Eedwing, Snow Bunting, 

 Woodcock, Jack Snipe, Little Auk are the most familiar 

 members of this group. Many members of the duck tribe 

 are also winter visitors. There are various other birds 

 which may strictly be described as resident in the North, 

 but which are only winter visitors in England. 



Birds of Passage or Migrational Visitors. These are 

 birds passing northward or southward and visiting the 

 British Isles on their way. They belong chiefly to the 

 family of Waders, e.g. Turnstone, Sanderling. 



Stray Migrants or Wanderers. These are birds not 

 regularly visiting our islands, but which appear irregularly 

 from time to time, e.g. White and Black Storks, Pallas's 



Sand Grouse, Crane. 







(6) Times of Coming and Going. 



If the pupils are being taught to report the outdoor 

 occurrences observed, records will be got of the times of 

 appearance and departure of the more familiar of our 



