Announcement

01 August 1978
Comments Editorials YOC cover design competition The competition for members of the Young Ornithologists' Club to design a cover for British Birds was won by Paul Spencer, of Horsham, West Sussex. His design 'Lonely sky' appears on the cover and is reproduced in b...
Read More

Letters

01 August 1978
Comments Letters Gallocanta Lagoon, Spain: an appeal We should like to draw the attention of British ornithologists to Gallocanta Lagoon, a wetland in northeast Spain. This lagoon, the very existence of which is scarcely known outside Spain, has in recent years...
Read More

Reviews

01 August 1978
Comments Reviews Cruickshank's Photographs of Birds of America. By Alan D. Cruickshank. Constable, London, 1978. ix + 182 pages; 177 blackand-white photographs. Paperback, £4.25.  This is primarily a set of very fine black-and-white photographs by the lat...
Read More

Notes

01 August 1978
Comments Notes Storm Petrels chasing albino At 06.00 GMT on 7th August 1977, on Bardsey, Gwynedd, my assistant warden, Trevor Jones, watched four Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus for over 1½ minutes as they flew south close along the west coast. Three were...
Read More

Personalities. 16. S. C. Madge

01 August 1978
Comments Main paper When Steve Madge first saw the light of day at Tor Point, Cornwall, in the winter of 1948, his mother gained what must have been the prototype bundle of joy and British ornithology one of its more colourful characters. His early days were spe...
Read More

Mystery photographs

01 August 1978
Comments Main paper From some tangled bushes, out pops a largish, dull warbler with prominent legs and an apparently enormous bill. It is obviously not a Phylloscopus or a Sylvia, so it is sensible to consider the genera Acrocephalus and Hippolais; the wide base to the bi...
Read More

Recent Reports

01 August 1978
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers May and the first part of J u n e ; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to May. The cyclonic conditions of late April, with light winds and periods of cloud an...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now