News and comment

01 July 1967 Comments News and comment Annual report of British Section of I.C.B.P.--The recently published annual report of the British Section of the International Council for Bird Preservation provides evidence of much efficient work carried out during i0t. This and the previous annual repo...
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Reviews

01 July 1967 Comments Reviews The Shell Bird Book. By James Fisher. Ebury Press and Michael Joseph, London, 1966. 344 pages; 20 colour plates and 150 blackand-white illustrations. 25 s. The title of this book gives little help to the intending purchaser. Without knowing the author, he...
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Notes

01 July 1967 Comments Notes Call-notes of Slavonian and Black-necked Grebes in autumn.-- On 24th September 1966, at the Queen Mary Reservoir, Middlesex, I heard an unfamiliar call which I eventually traced to an apparently immature Slavonian Grebe Podkeps auritus. It persistently ut...
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Pied-billed Grebe in Somerset

01 July 1967 Comments Main paper an old record in Dorset in 1881, which has never been generally accepted, the first Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podkeps to be recorded in Britain was observed at Blagdon Lake, Somerset, in December 1963 (Brit. Birds, 58: 305-309). Twenty months later, in...
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Pied-billed Grebe in Yorkshire

01 July 1967 Comments Main paper O N 9TH J U N E 1965 Major C. Worrin saw a small grebe on Beaverdyke Reservoir, a private water near Harrogate, Yorkshire. The views he had were brief and unsatisfactory, but he suspected from its call that the bird was something unusual. On the following...
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Recent reports and news

01 January 1958 Comments News and comment By I. J. FERGUSON-LEES In order to give our readers as up-to-date as possible a picture of recent reports of rare birds, of interesting movements and "invasions", and of other news of general interest, it has been decided to try, as an experiment, a month...
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Request for information

01 January 1958 Comments Editorials The Scientific Advisory Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology recently decided that publicity should be given in Bird Study, the quarterly journal of the B.T.O., to analyses which will be the subject of future papers in British Birds. We are ple...
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Reviews

01 January 1958 Comments Reviews Illustrated by PETER SCOTT. (Collins, London, 1957). 192 p a g e s ; many black-and-white drawings. 21s. T H I S IS a delightful book; its author is both an expert wildfowler and a keen ornithologist, and his writings prove that it is possible to combine ...
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