Monthly marathon

01 November 1996 Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...
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Recent reports

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...
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News and comment

01 November 1996 Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...
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Looking Back

01 November 1996 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...
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Recent reports

01 December 1964 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary outlines the rarer passerines in the two months from 19th September to 19th November, thus overlapping slightly with the previous one {Brit. Birds, 57: 441-444); the more regula...
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News and comment

01 December 1964 Comments News and comment launches a major appeal.--The British Trust for Ornithology has launched an appeal aimed at raising £25,000. It is made in a brochure (splendidly designed by Robert Gillmor) which gives a concise history of the Trust and outlines its need for a sou...
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Review

01 December 1964 Comments Reviews The Black-tailed Godwit. By F. Haverschmidt. Brill, Leiden, 1963. v i i i + 1 2 0 pages; frontispiece, 17 black-and-white photographs, 1 drawing and 2 maps. N o price marked. The author intended this book for ordinary bird-lovers and general ornithologist...
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Notes

01 December 1964 Comments Notes Apparent anting by Kestrel.--On 22nd September 1962 a friend and I were driving along the main road between Port Clarence and Seaton Carew, Co. Durham, when we saw a female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus fly up from an adjacent strip of rough grassland and ali...
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