Recent reports

01 October 1975
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The beginning of June was exceptional with snow and northerly gales, but a long anticyclonic spell which followed brought dry, warm conditions to most parts. A Red-throated Diver Ga...
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News and comment

01 October 1975
Comments News and comment Mammals on Islands In an article in New Scientist for 21st August, Dr W. R. P. Bourne expresses concern about damage to the vegetation of small outlying islands by introduced herbivores. He contrasts the vigorous policy of the New Zealand ...
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Notes

01 October 1975
Comments Notes Cormorants roosting on spire In the late summer and autumn of 1973 Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo regularly roosted on Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex. When this habit was first noted in mid-August only two birds were involved, but numbers gr...
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Birds in action

01 October 1975
Comments Main paper Bird photographs used to consist mainly of rather static studies at the nest. Then there developed the technique of 'wait and see' photography from hides at likely feeding and drinking places. Now more powerful lenses and more adventurous techniques ha...
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News and comment

01 July 1967
Comments News and comment Annual report of British Section of I.C.B.P.--The recently published annual report of the British Section of the International Council for Bird Preservation provides evidence of much efficient work carried out during i0t. This and the previous annual repo...
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Reviews

01 July 1967
Comments Reviews The Shell Bird Book. By James Fisher. Ebury Press and Michael Joseph, London, 1966. 344 pages; 20 colour plates and 150 blackand-white illustrations. 25 s. The title of this book gives little help to the intending purchaser. Without knowing the author, he...
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Notes

01 July 1967
Comments Notes Call-notes of Slavonian and Black-necked Grebes in autumn.-- On 24th September 1966, at the Queen Mary Reservoir, Middlesex, I heard an unfamiliar call which I eventually traced to an apparently immature Slavonian Grebe Podkeps auritus. It persistently ut...
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