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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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