Notes

01 April 1976
Comments Notes A further note on the wing-spreading of Black Storks In a recent note (Brit. Birds, 67: 236-237) M. D. England gave details of an unusual aspect of the feeding behaviour of some Black Storks Ciconia nigra in north-east Portugal. He described ho...
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Waders water and mud

01 April 1976
Comments Main paper We have received a superb collection of black-and-white photo graphs of waders washing, walking, running, feeding and flying, taken by Brian and Sheila Bottomley, mostly in Cornwall. Eight are reproduced here and we hope in due course to publish furthe...
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Ruddy Ducks in Britain

01 April 1976
Comments Main paper The Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis is one of five introduced birds (three waterfowl and two pheasants) that were admitted to the British and Irish list in 1971, when it was accepted that they had succeeded in establishing self-maintaining feral populati...
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November and December reports

01 April 1976
Comments News and comment We received a report of a Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps which arrived at Carlingwark Loch, Castle Douglas (Dumfries & Galloway), in November and was still present in January, though unfortunately no further details are available. Three Manx...
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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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