News and comment

01 April 1967
Comments News and comment Army Bird-watching Society.--Of the bird-watching societies run by the three armed services, that of the Army is perhaps the least well known. Its main aims are to promote and encourage bird-watching in the service and to co-operate with other ornithologi...
Read More

Requests for information

01 April 1967
Comments Editorials Irish Peregrine Survey.--The Irish Society for the Protection of Birds is organising a survey of Peregrines Falco peregrinus in the Republic of Ireland in 1967. The main objects are to arrive at an accurate estimate of the number of nesting pairs and, if ...
Read More

Letters

01 April 1967
Comments Letters Eruptions of Great Tits and other species Sirs,--I was interested in Dr. C. M. Perrins's paper on the effect of the seed crop of the beech Fagus sylvatka on the populations and movements of the Great Tit Partis major (Brit, Birds, 59: 419-432). To strengt...
Read More

Reviews

01 April 1967
Comments Reviews The Snow Bunting. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1966. 316 pages; 1 coloured and 18 blackand-white photographs; 11 text figures. 45s. A most arduous scientific project has at last come to fruition in this book. The challenge of ...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now