Notes

01 September 1997 Comments Notes The 'Notes' section of British Birds has a history as long as that of the journal itself, providing the opportunity for mostly amateur birdwatchers--as well as the professionals--to record their observations for posterity. For many, this will be the fi...
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Mystery Photographs

01 September 1997 Comments Main paper Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria, the North American counterpart of the familiar Green Sandpiper T. ochropus, is a rare transatlantic visitor to Europe, where the majority have been in Britain & Ireland (29 individuals up to the end of 1995...
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News and comment

01 March 1966 Comments News and comment National Nature Week.--Probably no further reminder is necessary that next month will see the Council for Nature's well publicised second National Nature Week, to be held from 23rd to 30th April. Local natural history societies, county naturalists' trusts...
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Letters

01 March 1966 Comments Letters Birds carrying dead nestlings Sirs,--With reference to the recent note by W. G. Luton on a House Sparrow Passer domesticus carrying a dead nestling, and the accompanying editorial comment (Brit. Birds, 5 8: 443), I am rather surprised that this practice s...
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Reviews

01 March 1966 Comments Reviews Advances i n the Study of Behavior. Edited by Daniel S. Lehrman, Robert A. H i n d e and Evelyn Shaw. Volume i . Academic Press, N e w York, 1965. 320 pages. 76s. This book is of wide general interest but contains two chapters, both of them by workers at ...
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