Recent reports

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This deals with January 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The only really significant weather feature in a fairly mild, wet month was a short spell of freezing north-east...
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News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment Golden Jubilee The International Council for Bird Preservation was formed in 1922, mainly through the foresight of an American, T. Gilbert Pearson, then president of what is now the National Audubon Society; the inaugural meeting was held in London on 20...
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Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
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Reviews

13 March 2014 Comments Reviews African Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins, London, 1971. 320 p a g e s ; 12 black-and-white plates. £2.25. This well-produced, smallish book covers the 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls which inhabit Africa. The author is, of course, a well-known...
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Notes

13 March 2014 Comments Notes Shags laying two clutches Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis have long been considered capable of producing two broods in one breeding season, but direct evidence of this is lacking (see The Handbook, vol 4; D. A. Bannerman, 1959, The Birds of the British Is...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1990 Comments Other 'ABUNDANCE OF LAND-RAILS IN EAST SUSSEX. NOT for many years past have there been so many Land-Rails (Crex crex) during the autumn migration as in 1915. From Pett eastwards there must have been hundreds wherever there was sufficient cover to hide these ...
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Recent reports

01 November 1990 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 14th September to 12th October 1990 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records.  Sora Porzana carolina Skomer (Dyfed), 7th October. Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda Scilly, 10th-11th October....
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Monthly marathon

01 November 1990 Comments Main paper The feeding wader (plate 209) was named by entrants as: Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea (81 %) Knot C. canutus (6%) Semipalmated Sandpiper C. pusilla (5%) Western Sandpiper C. mauri (4%) Little Stint C. minuta (3%), with a few votes each for Temmi...
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News and comment

01 November 1990 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. British birders lost. Two BB subscribers, Tim Andrews and Mike Entwistle, have disappeared when on a long birding trip to South America. They were seen by several ...
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