Recent reports

01 September 1971
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary deals with June 1971, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. It begins with two remarkable reports of White-billed Divers Gavia adamsii; one in breeding plumage on Uppe...
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News and comment

01 September 1971
Comments News and comment Oceanic dustbin ? The ill-starred July voyage of the Stella Maris gave wide publicity to a subject that has worried conservationists for some time, namely the dumping of industrial effluents at sea. The Stella Maris, a Dutch vessel, carried 600 tons of ch...
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Notes

01 September 1971
Comments Notes Female Golden Orioles in male plumage In the first part of his current series on 'Scarce migrants in Britain and Ireland during 1958-67' (Brit. Birds, 62: 169-189) D r J. T. R. Sharrock was right to point out that first-year male Golden Orioles Oriolus or...
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