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Monthly marathon

01 November 1990 Comments Main paper The feeding wader (plate 209) was named by entrants as: Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea (81 %) Knot C. canutus (6%) Semipalmated Sandpiper C. pusilla (5%) Western Sandpiper C. mauri (4%) Little Stint C. minuta (3%), with a few votes each for Temmi...

Obituary: Peter James Grant

01 November 1990 Comments Main paper Peter James Grant (1943-1990) T he whole ornithological world was shocked to hear that Peter Grant had terminal abdominal cancer, of which died on 16th April, aged 46. It still seems quite unbelievable that his cheerful voice will no longer answer...

Mystery photographs

01 November 1990 Comments Main paper The mystery bird depicted in plate 234 (repeated here) has long, pointed wings, forked tail, short legs, slender bill and black crown: clearly it is a breeding-plumaged tern. T h e dark grey underparts with contrasting whitish sides of the head immedia...

Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later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

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