News and comment

01 June 1973 Comments News and comment Towards realistic penalties? During the last two or three years there have been too many occasions when it has been necessary to deplore an apparent upsurge of interest in egg collecting resulting in the robbing of nests of rarer species, notab...
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Letters

01 June 1973 Comments Letters Wallcreeper on migration in the Netherlands Dr H. Lohrl's statement (Brit. Birds, 63 : 167) that the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria is non-migratory has been challenged by David Elias, H. G. Alexander, Guy Mountfort and K. D. Smith (Brit. Birds...
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Notes

01 June 1973 Comments Notes Aggression by female Buzzard at nest I was intrigued by the recent note from G. A. Williams and D. Coan on aggression by a female Buzzard Buteo buteo {Brit. Birds, 66: 31-32). O n 26th April 1944, in a large stand of mature Scots pines on a Lak...
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Studies of Sparrowhawks

01 June 1973 Comments Main paper Roy Blewitt's photographs are the first of the Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus to be published in British Birds since the long series which accompanied J. H. Owen's remarkable studies during 1916-36. They show well the uniform upperparts (plates 41a, 42b, ...
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Recent reports

01 October 1971 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary covers July 1971, and all dates refer to that month unless otherwise stated. A wreck of sprats at Teesmouth (Co. Durham/Yorkshire) in the third week attracted thousands of gulls a...
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News and Comment

01 October 1971 Comments News and comment Puffins in peril This is the title of an article by Dr J. J. M. Flegg in a recent issue (no. 46) of BTO News, published by the British Trust for Ornithology. Dr Flegg, who has been studying the Puffin colonies on St Kilda for several years, has concluded ...
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Letters

01 October 1971 Comments Letters Guillemots in Perthshire The most interesting note by E. J. Wise on the occurrence of Guillemots Uria aalge on the upper Tay inland in central Scotland in the autumns of 1969 and 1970 {Brit. Birds, 64: 77) raises a number of points. First, it is of course...
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Reviews

01 October 1971 Comments Reviews Birds of Prey in the Field. By Roger Harkness and Colin Murdoch. Witherby, London, 1971. 208 p a g e s ; 61 black-and-white photographs; 44 pages of drawings. £2.25. Birds of prey present difficult problems in field identification and many birdwatch...
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