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British Birds – August 2003

01 August 2003 Comments Latest issues ...

Monitoring the diets of farmland winter seed-eaters through raptor pellet analysis

01 August 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Pellets collected from winter roosts of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Hampshire were examined for plant seeds that occurred with the remains of passerines which would have been caught mostly in open f...

Numbers of wintering gulls in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man: a review of the 1993 and previous Winter Gull Roost Surveys

01 August 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT This paper summarises the January 1993 Winter Gull Roost Survey and evaluates the results of this and the four previous surveys of wintering gulls, carried out in 1953, 1963, 1973 and 1983. In total, 2,594,491 gulls were counted in Grea...

A 'post-Irish' review of 'firsts' for Britain

01 August 2003 Comments Notes ...

News and comment

01 August 2003 Comments News and comment ...

Notes

01 March 1970 Comments Notes Somersaulting behaviour of Canada Geese On ist February 1970 we were members of a party of more than 20 people who witnessed an extraordinary performance by about 200 Canada Geese Branta canadensis which we had watched coming down on Ellesmere, Shropshire...

The first ten years of the Rarities Committee

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper This survey is concerned with the efforts of the editors of this journal, and of the Rarities Committee set up by them in 1959s to collect, investigate, judge and publish annually in one document the essential details of all the rarer vagrants seen in Bri...

More examples of the best recent work by British-photographers

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper Plates 16-23 This is the eleventh annual selection of the best contemporary work by British bird-photographers. Six of the species and three of the photographers are new to the series which has therefore now included 150 photographs of 104 species by 59 p...

Effect of 'Hamilton Trader' oil on birds in the Irish Sea in May 1969

01 March 1970 Comments Main paper Just before dawn on 30th April 1969 the tanker Hamilton Trader was damaged in a collision with a German coaster near the Bar light vessel in Liverpool Bay. About 700 tons of heavy fuel oil were spilled into the sea. This incident provided an opportunity t...

Letter

01 February 1943 Comments Letters SIRS,--As the Statement in The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. III, p. 109) that the Osprey (Pandion h. hali/ztus) last bred at Loch Arkaig in 1902 is incorrect this should be corrected. A pair nested regularly ever since I can remember up to 1908 and the...

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