News and comment

01 August 1969 Comments News and comment National farming and conservation conference It is fashionable to berate farmers for such practices as hedge removal, tree felling and the use of chemicals. Yet can a farm be managed in a way that pleases both economist and conservationist ? This was the ...
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Letters

01 August 1969 Comments Letters White-rumped Swifts in Morocco I was very interested in the recent correspondence concerning the White-rumped Swifts Apus caffer in southern Spain and particularly in P. G. C. Bmdenell-Bruce's suggestion that ornithologists visiting north-west Africa shou...
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Reviews

01 August 1969 Comments Reviews A Regional Guide to the Birds of Scotland. By W. Kenneth Richmond. Constable, London, 1968. 252 p a g e s ; frontispiece and 54 black-and-white photographic plates; 15 maps. 25s. Mr Richmond's Regional Guide will by now have been bought by many people and...
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Notes

01 August 1969 Comments Notes Overland migrations of Common Scoters The Handbook notes that Common Scoters Melanitta nigra occur on inland waters 'in small numbers irregularly but fairly often' and that such records 'are too frequent . . . during quite settled weather to be dismissed ...
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Recent reports

01 August 1969 Comments News and comment June often sees a continuation of the May pattern of southern vagrants, these occurring quite separately from arrivals of any numbers of commoner species. June 1969 was no exception, though there were rather fewer rarities of this kind than in some other ...
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Requests for information

01 May 1962 Comments Editorials Wreck of Fulmars in February and March 1962.--Unusual numbers of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) were noted close inshore on various parts of the east coast during February, In some areas a high proportion were of dark or intermediate phases. During the next...
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Letters

01 May 1962 Comments Letters Ringed birds in snow Sirs,--During the snowy period of early January 1962, in my garden sanctuary near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, I saw two ringed birds, a Blue Tit (Pants caerukus) and a Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus), with their rings thickly coated ...
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