Recent reports

01 January 1975
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records An exceptionally early breeding record of Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus came from Osterley Park (Greater London), where a nest contained a hatched chick on 26th February, i...
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Reviews

01 January 1975
Comments Reviews A Guide to the Birds of Wales. By David Saunders. Constable, London, 1974. 341 pages; 21 photographs; 17 maps. £2.50.   A book on Welsh birds is quite an event; David Saunders has chosen to write a guide to the best birding localitie...
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Notes

01 January 1975
Comments Notes Common and Black-headed Gulls flight-feeding over ragwort On the west coast of much of the Outer Hebrides is found the machair, a stretch of flat sandy soil used mainly for growing a mixed crop of rye and oats for animal fodder. Landward of thi...
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The new counties and regions

01 January 1975
Comments Editorials The new counties and regions On 1st April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the counties, county boroughs, boroughs and urban and rural districts of England and Wales were superseded, for administrative purposes, by a new network of co...
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Reviews

01 February 1964
Comments Reviews A Study of Bird Song. By Edward A. Armstrong. Oxford University Press, London, 1963. x i v + 3 3 5 pages; 17 plates; 43 figures and 14 tables. 45 s. Far more work has been done on the vocal behaviour of birds than of all other animals combined. Much of it...
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Notes

01 February 1964
Comments Notes Unusual numbers of sea-birds at Teesmouth in August 1962.--In August 1962 huge concentrations of Sprats Clupea sprattus appeared in the bay and estuary of the River Tees, on the border of Co. Durham and Yorkshire. Many of the fish entering the mouth of th...
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