Recent reports and news

01 January 1961
Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Reviews

01 January 1961
Comments Reviews T h e Eleventh Annual Report of the Wildfowl Trust. Edited by H u g h Boyd and Peter Scott. Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, i960. 168 p a g e s ; 32 plates. 10s. The Wildfowl Trust's Annual Report contains, as usual, a varied assortment of news of the collect...
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Notes

01 January 1961
Comments Notes Little Shearwater in Norfolk.--On ist May i960 we found a freshly dead shearwater on the beach between Cley and Blakeney Point, Norfolk. It was in good condition but for the left carpal joint, which was bare to the bone. The bird was black above and white...
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Review

01 August 1939
Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory. Report for 1938. As this interesting report shows, Mr, R. M. Lockley is gradually building up at Skokholm a bird observatory which is doing valuable work. A large number of people visited the island during t h e year and helped ...
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Notes

01 August 1939
Comments Notes EASILY the outstanding ornithological event in Sussex for the year 1939 was the accomplished breeding, for the first time since about 1895, of a pair of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in a sea-cliff some miles removed from the one in which, in 1938, (?) anothe...
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