Notes

01 August 1972
Comments Notes Little Gull dip-feeding over upland fields On 22nd January 1972, at Barley-in-Pendle, Lancashire, I was fortunate to observe a firstwinter Little Gull Larus minutus following a flock of 24 Black-headed Gulls L. ridibundus over the lower slopes of Pendle H...
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Recent reports

01 August 1972
Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was remarkably cold, wet and windy--altogether a month of outstandingly bad weather. A shallow depression which drifted in at the end of April brought a pleasant May Day with a light south...
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News and comment

01 August 1972
Comments News and comment Environment Conference The much-vaunted United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm between 5 th and 16th June, and a great deal has already been written elsewhere about this jamboree. The conference began badly, for the U.S....
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Letters

01 August 1972
Comments Letters E y e colour of immature American Marsh H a w k Following the publication of my paper on a young American Marsh Hawk Circus cyaneus hudsonius near Cley, Norfolk, in the winter of 1957/58 {Brit. Birds, 64: 537-542), R. A. Richardson wrote to point out that...
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Letter

01 September 1943
Comments Letters SIRS --It was with very great interest t h a t I read the articles on incubation in the June and July numbers by Col. Ryves and Mr. Tucker. From reading these articles I realised t h a t I must have had a quite unique experience regarding incubation by th...
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Notes

01 September 1943
Comments Notes DURING the last year I have been able to pay regular visits to the Sewage Farm just outside the town of Bedford and amongst the many birds seen, the following seem worthy of note. I am grateful to Mr. B. O. Clifford and Mr. A. J. Swain for providing me wi...
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Nest-Site Selection by birds

01 September 1943
Comments Main paper T H E late F . C. R. Jourdain writing on " Our Present Knowledge of the Breeding-Biology of B i r d s " (antea, Vol. xxiv, p. 135) remarked : "Every detail of the life of the bird is important. For example most valuable and interesting light is thrown on ...
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