Recent reports

01 October 1977
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers July and the first part of August; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to July. The first week of this period was very warm and the consequent increase...
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News and comment

01 October 1977
Comments News and comment Conference on European bird protection co-operation The Deutsche Bund für Vogelschutz has invited representatives of the major European bird protection organisations to discuss this autumn at Mainz their common position towards European Econom...
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Requests

01 October 1977
Comments Editorials Descriptions of hybrid wildfowl Hybrid wildfowl are most commonly to be seen in or near collections. The ordinary birdwatcher often regards them as aesthetically and conservationally undesirable, besides being uninteresting. It is, however, the...
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Letters

01 October 1977
Comments Letters Field guides and the appreciation of birds It is always good to find credit given where it is due. Hence I was glad to see Bruce Campbell's suggestion (Brit. Birds 70: 172) that W. B. Alexander's Birds of the Ocean (ig28) was probably the first...
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