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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Recents reports

01 June 1994 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 18th April to 15th May 1994 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. HoHoney-buzzard Pernis apivorus Near Moira (Go. Down), 15th May (potentially first record since 1965 for Northern Ireland). Black Ki...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 1994 Comments Other With that wing-stretching wader (plate 43 in the March issue), the sixth 'Monthly marathon' has been won. It was identified as Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (48%), Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes (36%) and seven other wader species. It was a Wood Sandpi...
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News and comment

01 June 1994 Comments News and comment WE WERE DISTURBED to learn that no Siberian Cranes Grus leucogeranus appeared at Bharatpur (Uttar Pradesh) in winter 1993/94. The famous Indian wildlife sanctuary has, it seems, lost one of its most famous birds, after a steady period of decline dating...
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Diary dates

01 June 1994 Comments Editorials 28th July to 12th August SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE ARTISTS' ANNUAL EXHIBITION (including display of winning entries in 'Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard Richardson Award' competitions). The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1. Open 10 a.m.-5 p...
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