Reviews

01 November 2008
Comments Reviews PETRELS NIGHT AND DAY By Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney and The Sound Approach. The Sound Approach, Poole, Dorset, 2008. 300 pages, 17 full-page colour plates; many colour photographs; and sonograms of most of the 127 sound recordings presented on two ...
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Letter

01 November 2008
Comments Letters The excellent and informative paper by Heaney et al. (2008) stated that `The [Isles of Scilly] Puffin Fratercula arctica population is of great regional importance and, along with colonies in the Channel Islands and Co. Kerry, marks the southwestern li...
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Conservation research news

01 November 2008
Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra in recent decades, estimated at 86% between 1967 and 2005, has been among the most dramatic of any species in the UK. A similar pattern of decline, including range contraction and local extinct...
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News and comment

01 December 1966
Comments News and comment The B.O.U. 'Check-List' and 1966 records of rare birds.--The Records Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union hopes to complete the text of the new edition of its standard 'Check-List' by the end of March 1967. This publication will review more full...
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Request for Information

01 December 1966
Comments Editorials Status of Water Pipits in winter.--The discovery that Water Pipits Anthus s. spinohtta are now wintering regularly, perhaps in some numbers, on watercress beds in southern England (see pages 552-554 and plate 81a) has encouraged the British Trust for Orni...
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