News and comment

01 September 1972
Comments News and comment Foulness wildlife study When the Foulness area was chosen for the Third London Airport, the Government promised that funds would be available for a study of the airport's impact on the wildlife environment of the region. Long after some of us had given up...
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Reviews

01 September 1972
Comments Reviews Gulls i n Britain. By Richard Vaughan. Witherby, London, 1972. 96 p a g e s ; 54 black-and-white plates. £1.75. This is a pleasant book. Gulls are highly photogenic, but few of us who walk through a gullery firing off a camera in all directions prod...
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Notes

01 September 1972
Comments Notes Bewick's Swans feeding on waste potatoes and other agricultural crops Bewick's Swans Cygnus bewickii were present on the North Slob, Wexford, from 27th October 1971 to 10th March 1972. The maximum count was 131 on n t h February and the average from 17th ...
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Recent reports

01 September 1972
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during most of June was little better than that of the second half of May--a seemingly endless series of Atlantic depressions (nine major systems, in fact) bringing cold, cloudy co...
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Recent Reports

01 June 1955
Comments News and comment Normally April and May provide us with quite a scattering of vagrants from southern and south-eastern Europe, but this year such wanderers seem to have been rather few. There were two reports of a Little Egret (Egretta gar^etta) on St. Mary's (Isles of Sc...
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News and Comments

01 June 1955
Comments News and comment N e w Dictionary of Birds.--Work has been going on in earnest for over five years on a New Dictionary of Birds, a centenary enterprise of the British Ornithologists' Union. The formidable task of organising and editing has been undertaken by Sit Landsboro...
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Requests for information

01 June 1955
Comments Editorials Effects of the severe winter of 1962-63.--The severe weather of last winter has probably had a considerable effect on the numbers of some species of birds, and an analysis of this is being undertaken by British Birds as for previous hard winters (e.g. 193...
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