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Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper In October 1962, while travelling from New York to Southampton in R.M.S. Mauretania, I was fortunate to witness a fall of over 130 American landbirds of 34 species (Durand 1963). This was the highlight of five years of voyaging across the North Atlantic i...

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper ...

Birds in Ireland during 1963-65

01 May 1967 Comments Main paper years 1960-62 were reviewed in January 1964 by D . G. Andrew (Brit. Birds, 57: 1-10). The information that he summarised came mainly from the Irish Bird Reports which have continued to appear promptly under the expert hand of Major R. F. Ruttledge. T h e ...

More examples of the best recent work by British bird-photographers

01 May 1967 Comments Main paper annual selection of the best contemporarywork by British bird-photographers. The final choice was particularly difficult this year because it had to be made from a preliminary selection of no less than 67 prints of a comparably high standard. It is sad th...

Changes in status among breeding birds in Britain and Ireland

01 May 1967 Comments Main paper Arctic Skua Stercararius parasiticus. Somewhat decreased 19th century, due to human disturbance; somewhat increased in 20th century where protected (A & L). Increasing Orkney and Fair Isle; little information from elsewhere. Not scarce; restricted to Scot...

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