Recent reports

01 May 1969 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary is concerned mainly with March 1969 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. This period included several interesting rarities, among them some notable America...
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News and comment

01 May 1969 Comments News and comment Bird Room for Tring ? In 193 9 the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) considered moving the Bird Room to the former Rothschild Museum at Tring, the latter having been bequeathed to the nation in 1937, but the advent of the Second World War l...
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Letters

01 May 1969 Comments Letters The Irish record of Bulwer's Petrel To avoid misinterpretation of the editorial note appended to the letter from Dr J. T, R. Sharrock on the subject of the Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii seen by J. R, H. Clements off Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, on 26t...
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Notes

01 May 1969 Comments Notes Woodpigeons cooing at night J. N . Tomlinson's note and the accompanying editorial comment (Brit. Birds, 62: 76-77) give the impression that it is exceptional for Woodpigeons Columba palumbus to call at night. In the past 28 years, however, living in thre...
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The impaling of prey by shrikes

01 May 1969 Comments Main paper There still appears to be some uncertainty concerning the function of larders' of shrikes (Laniidae). These collections of impaled prey can conveniently be considered under two largely separate headings: (i) the use of the spike; and (2) the use of the la...
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Letters

01 August 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Is it generally known t h a t t h e Green Woodpecker eats fruit ? I watched one on October 23rd making a hearty meal off an apple a few yards from m y window, and since then many large apples picked u p plainly show t h e marks of this bird's power...
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Reviews

01 August 1963 Comments Reviews Report on the Immigration of Summer-residents in the Spring of 1912 ; also Notes on the Migratory Movements and Records received from Lighthouses and Light-vessels during the Autumn of 1911. By the Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Club (...
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Notes

01 August 1963 Comments Notes I WAS at Dungeness from October 20th to 23rd, 1913, and a great deal of migration was proceeding at the time, chiefly of flocks of finches and other birds flying south in the early morning. Between 12 noon and 1 p.m. on the 20th I saw a party of thirteen...
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