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Product reports

01 February 1989 Comments Main paper Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...

Seventy-five years ago...

01 February 1989 Comments Other 'INCURSION OF WAXWINGS. A LARGE number of Waxwings (Ampelis garrulus) appear to have visited Great Britain this winter . . . and Herr F. Tischler records an invasion of Waxwings in East Prussia in the autumn of 1913. Not only have Waxwings been numerou...

Mystery photographs

01 February 1989 Comments Main paper In relation to the vegetation, last month's mystery bird (plates 15 & 45) would appear to be a small passerine. What can be seen of its bill looks fine, and it has fairly long, slender legs. The bird is relatively unmarked below, but has a very pro...

Goshawk breeding habitat in lowland Britain

01 February 1989 Comments Main paper Despite the fascination that it holds for birdwatchers, the Goshawk Accipiter gentilis in the wild remains a rarely sighted and understudied species in Britain. Following persecution in the nineteenth century, it was lost as a regular breeding spe...

PhotoSpot. 27. Sinai Rosefinch

01 February 1989 Comments Main paper The rosefinch genus Carpodacus includes 18 species breeding in the Palearctic and three in North and Central America. Only four species occur in the Western Palearctic: Scarlet Rosefinch C. erythrinus, Pallas's Rosefinch C. roseus, Great Rosefinch C. r...

Observations at a Wren roost

01 February 1989 Comments Main paper The communal roosting of Wrens Troglodytes troglodytes is well documented (e.g. Armstrong 1955; Brit. Birds 62: 157-158, 244; 72: 104-107; 76: 579-580; E. A. Ellis, Eastern Daily Press 22nd February & 17th March 1986, and in lift.). During January-...

Congratulations, RSPB!

01 February 1989 Comments Editorials Exactly 100 years ago, in February 1889, a group of people, mainly ladies concerned about the plumage trade, met at Didsbury , Manchester. Out of this small event grew the 'Society for the Protection of Birds', which, with the granting o...

Short index of English names of birds

01 December 1960 Comments Editorials This simplified index is confined to the numbers of the first pages of papers, notes and letters on the species concerned. Casual references to other species within the text are not included, nor are birds discussed in reviews or in the "Recent reports an...

Letters

01 December 1960 Comments Letters International ornithological congresses Sirs,--In his review of the Proceedings of the XII International Ornithological Congress {Brit. Birds, 53: 447-452) your reviewer makes some most relevant observations concerning the present nature of these meetings...

Reviews

01 December 1960 Comments Reviews The Isle of May. By W. J. Eggeling. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1960. xiv-j-280 pages; 20 photographic plates, 30s. The firm of Oliver & Boyd has for some time been earning a deservedly high reputation for the publication of natural history books...

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