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Mystery photographs: Willet

01 October 1981 Comments Main paper Larger waders should not present many identification problems! At a distance, this one has long legs, a moderately long, stoutish bill and a fairly bulky body. On a European beach, three such species may be expected: Redshank Tringa totanus, Bar-tailed...

Best recent black and white bird-photograph

01 October 1981 Comments Main paper In this, the competition's twenty-second year, a total of 234 photographs was submitted by 39 photographers. As always, the general standard was exceedingly high. In comparison with previous years, it was, however, disappointing to find rather few atte...

Personalities. 26 David Glue

01 October 1981 Comments Main paper David joined the BTO staff at much the same time that I did, late in 1968, bringing with him an already impressive list of publications and a special reputation as an owl man. Soon, the Populations Section was getting used to his powerful personal...

Seabird movements along the east coast of England

01 October 1981 Comments Main paper t has been known for over a century that large movements of seabirds-- including scarce species--may occur at intervals, at any time of year, along the east coast of Britain following the onset of northwest to east winds (Nelson et al. 1907, Temperley ...

Aleutian Tern: new to the Western Palearctic

01 October 1981 Comments Main paper On 28th May 1979, at 13.30 GMT, R. Heywood heard a soft wader-like call, on Inner Farne in the Farne Islands, Northumberland. On turning, instead of the expected wader, he saw a dark tern with a sharply defined white forehead, unlike any of the other t...