Letters

01 April 1993
Comments Letters Tree Swallow records in Britain. Whilst reading the recent report on 'Rare birds in Great Britain' (Brit. Birds 85: 507-554), I was surprised to read, under the 1990 Isles of Scilly record of Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor, the comment that it w...
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Letters

01 June 1991
Comments Letters Keeping warm. In his useful 'Birdcraft' article on clothing for birdwatchers (Brit. Birds 84: 27-30), Dr M. A. Ogilvie could have given one more useful tip of which a surprisingly large number of birdwatchers are apparently unaware. Most farmworkers, e...
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Short reviews

01 June 1990
Comments Reviews Caring for your Pet Bird. By Dr R. Dean Axelson. (Revised edn. Sterling Publishing, New York; Cassell, London, 1989. 68 pages. Paperback £5.95) An informative guide to diseases of captive birds, which might help in treatment of injured wild birds. TIM...
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Short reviews

01 December 1989
Comments Reviews Birds of Prey of the Middle East. By Bertel Bruun and Assas Serhal. Illustrated by Arthur Singer and Sherif Baha. (Holy Land Conservation Fund & the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon. New York & Beirut, 1988. 96 pages. $10.00) Thi...
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Letters

01 May 1986
Comments Letters 'British Birds' and conservation. In reading through the last four years' back numbers of British Birds I have to praise you for its overall quality, its presentation and the high standard of the articles. Nowhere, however, can I find a major article o...
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Letters

01 November 1985
Comments Letters Definition of a birdwatcher. Do other British Birds readers also get branded as bird lovers rather than bird watchers by their non-birder friends? If so, we no longer have any problem in explaining this subtlety. We merely point to the beautifully obje...
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Reviews

01 September 1985
Comments Reviews A Dictionary of Birds. Edited by Bruce Campbell and Elizabeth Lack. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton, 1985. 670 pages; over 500 black-and-white plates, line-drawings and diagrams. £39.00.  The majority of books that one is asked to review one s...
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Letters

01 July 1984
Comments Letters Wing-span of White Pelican. In Stanley Cramp's 'Studies of West Palearctic birds. 185: White Pelican [Pelecanus onocrotalus]' (Brit. Birds 76: 253-262), I consider a reference to a 'wing-span of up to 360cm' (11 feet 10 inches) somewhat large f...
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Reviews

01 December 1982
Comments Reviews The Garden Bird Book. Edited by David Glue. Macmillan, London, in association with the British Trust for Ornithology. 1982. 208 pages; 8 colour plates, numerous black-and-white photographs, and two-colour line drawings. £7.95. The introduction...
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