Recent reports

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This deals with January 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The only really significant weather feature in a fairly mild, wet month was a short spell of freezing north-east...
Read More

News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment Golden Jubilee The International Council for Bird Preservation was formed in 1922, mainly through the foresight of an American, T. Gilbert Pearson, then president of what is now the National Audubon Society; the inaugural meeting was held in London on 20...
Read More

Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
Read More

Reviews

13 March 2014 Comments Reviews African Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins, London, 1971. 320 p a g e s ; 12 black-and-white plates. £2.25. This well-produced, smallish book covers the 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls which inhabit Africa. The author is, of course, a well-known...
Read More

Notes

13 March 2014 Comments Notes Shags laying two clutches Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis have long been considered capable of producing two broods in one breeding season, but direct evidence of this is lacking (see The Handbook, vol 4; D. A. Bannerman, 1959, The Birds of the British Is...
Read More

Recent reports

01 October 1995 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 14th August to 17th September 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris Cape Clear Island (Co. Cork), 10th...
Read More

News and comment

01 October 1995 Comments News and comment It was in 1990 that the (then) Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the RSPB published Red Data Birds in Britain, identifying 117 species in need of 'our care and attention'. Knowledge relating to the status of some of these species was inevitably sket...
Read More

Notes

01 October 1995 Comments Notes In 1992, in the village of Byshkiv in the Lviv region of Ukraine, I noted a White Stork Ciconia ciconia regularly taking domestic ducklings. While the ducklings, which were two or three weeks old, were swimming on the water, the stork moved sharply tow...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now