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Letters

01 May 1976 Comments Letters The continuing slaughter of birds of prey in Britain Your recent editorial (Brit. Birds, 68: 481-483) on the World Conference on Birds of Prey, organised by the International Council for Bird Preservation in Vienna in October 1975, stimulates t...

Reviews

01 May 1976 Comments Reviews Flamingos. Edited by Janet Kear and Nicole Duplaix-Hall. T, & A. D. Poyser, Berkhamsted, 1975. 246 pages; seven colour plates; 48 black-and-white plates; numerous drawings, maps and diagrams, £8.00. In July 1973 an international gathering ...

Notes

01 May 1976 Comments Notes Reactions of Goldeneyes to boating Until 1966 Chasewater (Cannock Reservoir), Staffordshire, held fewer than ten wintering Goldeneyes Bucephala clangula. In subsequent winters higher numbers have been recorded. Although the reasons for this inc...

Breeding biology of Sanderlings in north-east Greenland

01 May 1976 Comments Main paper In the first detailed account of breeding Sanderlings Calidris alba, Manniche (1910) reported that only females incubated and attended the chicks. Other observers did not always agree, because both males and females were shot at the nest and one or two...

View: A price for conservation?

01 May 1976 Comments Main paper Colin Tubbs is an Assistant Regional Officer for the Nature Conservancy Council and author of 'The New Forest--an ecological history' {ig6g) and 'The Buzzard' (1974)- His research interests include interpretation of the structure of woodland and other ...

Nocturnal migration of Thrushes

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper OBSERVATIONS on both day and night migrants, made near Dublin in the autumn of 1952, have already been briefly reported elsewhere (Browne, 1953). Two conclusions on the nocturnal migration of thrushes seem worthy of more detailed consideration. These are ...

Some photographic studies of the American Robin

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper (Plates 56-59). T H E American Robin (Turdus migratorius) has of course no particular connection with its Old World namesake (Erithacus rubecula), other than a certain similarity in the colour of the breast which doubtless caused the homesick early coloni...

American Robin on Lundy

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper PETER DAVIS (Lundy Bird Observatory). (Plate 59) AN American Robin (Turdus migratorhis) was present on Lundy from October 27th to November 8th, 1952. It was probably first seen on October 25th, by one of the islanders.On the morning- of October 27th I fou...

Migration at the Kentish Knock lightship

01 October 1953 Comments Main paper IN conjunction with the 1952 autumn watch for visible migration organised by the Edward Grey Institute (Lack, in press)*, I visited the Kentish Knock Lightship (51 Â°39'24"N., OIÂ°4.O'4.8"E.) which is situated in the Thames approaches in the southern ...

Letter

01 October 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--I should like to make some comments on Drs. Gibb and Campbell's and Mr. Butterfield's answers (antea, lp. 119) to my letter about nest record card data. I did not imagine, of course, that the organisers of the scheme would be unaware of the difficu...

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