Announcements

01 October 1991 Comments Editorials Addition to the British and Irish List. In its forthcoming fifteenth report (Ibis in press), the BOU Records Committee will publish its recognition--following the recommendations by Bourne et al and Yesou a al. (Brit. Birds 81: 306-319; 83: 299-319)--o...
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Fieldwork action

01 October 1991 Comments Editorials BTO news. Did you know that 20% of wintering Redshanks Tringa totanus at a site on the East Lothian coast are eaten by raptors each year? Or that some birds hunt by smell? That owls can breed in baskets, and Merlins Falco columbariu...
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Announcements

01 September 1991 Comments Editorials Rare Breeding Birds Panel. The work of the Panel has been supported since its inception in 1973 by British Birds, the BTO, the NCC and the RSPB. In April 1991, however, the NCC ceased to exist, its functions being taken over by three separate bodies: E...
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Fieldwork action

01 September 1991 Comments Editorials Are Nightjar numbers still on the way down? The first sign of a decline in numbers of Nightjars Caprimulgus europaeus was in 1952, and, since the BTO Nightjar Survey of 1957-58, the trend has been one of a continuing decrease, especially in the North a...
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