News and comment

01 October 1965
Comments News and comment Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve.--The Nature Conservancy have purchased 1,216 acres of sand dunes between Ainsdale and Formby on the Lanca shire coast and the area has now been statutorily declared as the Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Re...
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Letters

01 October 1965
Comments Letters T h e w i n g pattern of the female Great Bustard Sirs,---In his recent article on 'Flight patterns of the European bus tards' (Brit. Birds, 58: 43-47), Philip J. Stead wrote with reference to the Great Bustard Otis tarda: 'The wing patterns of both sexes...
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Notes

01 October 1965
Comments Notes Turnstone feeding on dead sheep.--On ist March 1964,8 day of heavy mist, we were walking along the shore at Steart Point, Somer set, when we came across the carcase of a sheep. A Carrion Crow Corvus corone and two Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinttsfl...
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Reviews

01 March 1951
Comments Reviews The Moult-migration of the Sheld-Duck. By R. A. H. Coombes (Ibis, Vol. 92, pp. 405-418). In this paper Mr. Coombes describes work on the Sheld-Duck, which he has carried on as occasion offered over a number of years and intensively throughout the summer o...
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Notes

01 March 1951
Comments Notes PARTLY as a result of a request for such information (antea, vol. xliii, p. 223) we have received a certain number of records of summer visitors spending the winter of 1949-50 in the British Isles. We have also received several records of species seen un...
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Obituary: E. W. Hendy

01 March 1951
Comments Obituaries ERNEST WILLIAM HENDY, who died in his 78th year on November 1st, 1950, brought a poet's mind and a classical training to the study of birds and wild life, and his approach bore fruit in a rare degree of insight into Nature, matched by an originality and ...
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Sheld-Duck On The Tay Estuary

01 March 1951
Comments Main paper progress has been made in unravelling the tangled life-history of Sheld-duck (Tadorna tadoma). Hoogerheide and Kraak (1942) have shown that many Western European birds assemble in July on the great tidal flats behind the islands fringing the Dutch and Ger...
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