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May report

01 September 1976 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during May was generally warm with several hot spells, particularly in the second week, and was dominated by winds from a southerly quarter, which encouraged the overshooting of so...

News and Comment

01 September 1976 Comments News and comment Endangered species The expected failure of the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Bill to become law in this Parliamentary session (Brit. Birds, 69: 156157) will allow conservationists and Government alike time to consider the reasoning behind passing...

XIV International Ornithological Congress: Preliminary Announcement

01 May 1955 Comments Editorials It was decided at the close of the XIII International Ornithological Congress at Ithaca, New York, that the next Congress would be held in Great Britain in 1966, with Dr. David Lack as President. At a meeting of the British members of the International Or...

News and comments

01 May 1955 Comments News and comment Prize-winning films.--The B.B.C. and the Council for Nature recently announced the results of their jointly sponsored natural history film competition for amateurs. The joint winners of the £700 prize in the main class for a film suitable for televi...

Reviews

01 May 1955 Comments Reviews The Migrations of Birds. By Jean Dorst. Translated from the French by Constance D . Sherman. Heinemann, London, 1962. x i v + 4 7 6 pages; 131 figures in the text. 50s. The amateur migration enthusiast often longs for a comprehensive, readable book in Eng...

Notes

01 May 1955 Comments Notes Exceptional passage of Cory's Shearwaters off Co. Cork.--During the late afternoon of 10th August 1962 a routine sea-watch from a hundred feet above sea level at Pointanbullig, one of the southern points of Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, revealed an unusual...

More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

01 May 1955 Comments Main paper W E N O W P R E S E N T our fourth annual selection of the best contemporary work by British bird-photographers (cf. Brit. Birds, 5 3: plates 25-32; 54: plates 27-34; and 55: plates 32-40), the main object of this series being to keep a permanent record o...

A remarkable fall of American land-birds on the 'Mauretania', New York to Southampton, October 1962

01 May 1955 Comments Main paper O N Z N D O C T O B E R 1 9 6 2 , a tropical storm originating at about 22°N 63°W, to the north-east of St. Thomas, in the West Indies, developed into hurricane 'Daisy' and moved slowly north-west between the Bermudas and Cape Hatteras, continuing offsh...

Requests for information

01 May 1955 Comments Editorials in 1954/55.--It is evident from reports we have received and from preliminary enquiries made by Mr. J, A. G. Barnes, that some summer visitors, notably terns and Hirundines but also other species as well, delayed their departure from the British Isles in ...

Letters

01 May 1955 Comments Letters A M E R I C A N L A N D - B I R D S IN W E S T E R N E U R O P E SIRS,---I should like to offer brief comments on the fine paper on "American land birds in western E u r o p e " in the January issue (ante a, pp. 1-14). It seems to me that it may overstate...

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