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Mystery photographs

01 January 1982 Comments Main paper Breaking if not a rule then at least a general tendency, let us identify last month's mystery photograph in the first sentence, as a Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis. This is not a particularly difficult species to identify; on two counts, this is pr...

European news

01 January 1982 Comments Main paper This tenth report includes records from correspondents in 18 European countries. Records awaiting formal verification by national rarity committees are indicated by an asterisk (*). Unless otherwise stated, all records refer to 1981 and to single indiv...

Behaviour of Black-winged Stilts

01 January 1982 Comments Main paper The family Recurvirostridae comprises four genera, two of which are represented in Europe, by the Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta and the Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus. Five subspecies of the latter are recognised, of which the nominate race o...

Movements of Ruddy Ducks during the hard winter of 1978/79

01 January 1982 Comments Main paper Since the first escaped Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis bred in Britain in 1960 (King 1976), they have undergone a phenomenal population expansion. In an earlier review of their status, Hudson (1976) estimated a population growth of 25% per annum and, a...

Migrants through Malta and Gozo: October, 1941 to July, 1945

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper In Autumn 1941 and spring 1945, I had an opportunity of noting the comings and goings of migrants through the islands of Malta and Gozo. The vast majority of the birds seen were British birds, in so far as they are on the British List, and were passage...

Territory in the Ringed Plover

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper IN July, 1944, I had an opportunity of studying the territorial behaviour of Ringed Plover (Charadrius h. hiaticula), at Malahide, Co. Dublin, where large numbers nest in and around the tern colony. The conditions for observation were exceptionally fav...

Notes on the birds of Abberton Reservoir, Esses

01 March 1947 Comments Main paper ...

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