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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Reviews

01 February 1983 Comments Reviews Bird Migration in Africa: movements between six continents. By Kai Curry-Lindahl. Academic Press, 1981. 2 vols, lxxxix + 695 pages; many text maps; 32 monochrome plates. Vol. 1, £41.40; vol. 2, £20.60. A price which is unusually high, coupled with th...
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Recent reports

01 February 1983 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records All dates refer to November unless stated otherwise. During the first week, high pressure nearby on the Continent blocked the passage of Atlantic depressions, with resultant warm southerly ...
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News and comment

01 February 1983 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Cape Clear news. It is good news for Irish ornithology that Tim Collins, who has had a very successful spell as Warden at Cape Clear Bird Observatory in autumn 198...
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Announcements

01 February 1983 Comments Editorials Irish Rare Breeding Birds Panel At a meeting held in Dublin on 27th November 1982, an Irish Rare Breeding Birds Panel was formed, to collect all records of rare breeding birds in the Republic of Ireland. Those attending this meeting were Dr David Cabot...
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