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Recent reports - May

01 August 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was a month of unsettled weather, generally warm in most parts of Britain but with above average rainfall in some places. The presence during the first week of an area of high pressure ...

Notes

01 August 1973 Comments Notes Death of Great Crested Grebe in unusual circumstances On 26th June 1971, at Rostherne Mere National Nature Reserve, Cheshire, I observed a pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus in what appeared to be normal courtship display. One part...

Predation of migrant birds by gulls

01 August 1973 Comments Main paper Gulls Larus have a very diverse feeding ecology, but vertebrates form a significant part of the diet of some species (Tinbergen 1953). They are well known for their depredations on the eggs and young of colonial seabirds; they also attack and kill inju...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1972

01 August 1973 Comments Main paper This is the fifteenth annual report of the Rarities Committee. The composition of the committee is now D. I. M. Wallace (chairman), F. R. Smith (honorary secretary), D. G. Bell, A. R. M. Blake, P. E. Davis, R. H. Dennis, P.J. Grant, R.J.Johns, R. A. Ri...

Current developments in the work of the Rarities Committee

01 August 1973 Comments Main paper During 1972, and more particularly at its annual meeting in March 1973, the Rarities Committee has reviewed many points of policy and practice. Conscious of the criticism that it periodically attracts, it remains anxious to conduct its work as openly a...

Recent reports

01 October 1970 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report summarises the records for September 1970 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. While an anticyclone persisted over the Azores until 17th, a series of depres...

News and Comment

01 October 1970 Comments News and comment Annual Conference The Annual Conference of the British Trust for Ornithology was held at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 4th to 6th December 1970, and the wide range of subjects discussed demonstrated the many-sided outlook of the...