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Pacific Swift: new to the Western Palearctic

01 February 1990 Comments Open Access On 19th June 1981, R. Waiden was on the deck of the Shell BT gas- platform on the Leman Bank at 53°06'N 02°12'E, about 45 km off Happisburgh, Norfolk, when a bird attempted to land on his shoulder. It then flew past him and clung to a wall on the rig...

Field identification of Sooty Falcon

01 February 1990 Comments Main paper The Sooty Falcon Falco concolor is a summer resident in desert areas of the Arabian peninsula, northeastern Africa, and Israel north to the Dead Sea. Recent studies (Walter 1979a; Frumkin & Pinshow 1983) have led to a better unde...

Moult and autumn colony attendance of auks

01 February 1990 Comments Main paper Both the Guillemot Una aalge and the Razorbill Alca torda have an unusual breeding system in that the young leaves the breeding site when only partly grown and is taken to sea by the male parent; the female continu...

Mystery photographs

01 February 1990 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

01 February 1990 Comments Notes Calls of American and Pacific Golden Plovers ...

Letter

01 February 1990 Comments Letters Detailed descriptions One point ...

Seasonal reports Autumn 1989, part 1

01 February 1990 Comments Main paper ...

Recent reports and news

01 January 1958 Comments News and comment By I. J. FERGUSON-LEES In order to give our readers as up-to-date as possible a picture of recent reports of rare birds, of interesting movements and "invasions", and of other news of general interest, it has been decided to try, as an experiment, a month...

Request for information

01 January 1958 Comments Editorials The Scientific Advisory Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology recently decided that publicity should be given in Bird Study, the quarterly journal of the B.T.O., to analyses which will be the subject of future papers in British Birds. We are ple...

Reviews

01 January 1958 Comments Reviews Illustrated by PETER SCOTT. (Collins, London, 1957). 192 p a g e s ; many black-and-white drawings. 21s. T H I S IS a delightful book; its author is both an expert wildfowler and a keen ornithologist, and his writings prove that it is possible to combine ...

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