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Letters

01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...

Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998

01 November 1999 Comments Main paper This is the forty-first annual Report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it is an almost complete record of the rare birds recorded in Britain in 1998. Descriptions and, where available, photographs of each record have been scrutinised by a te...

Grey Wagtail Passage in Britain in 1956-60

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper cinerea recorded at various of the coastal bird observatories in September 1959 (Williamson 1959), which focused attention on this species, requests for information were published in British Birds (53: 140 and 54: 131) and News for Naturalists (2: 15). Th...

Birds in Ireland during 1960-62

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper annual reports of the Rarities Committee (see Brit. Birds, 54: 174). The advantages of having all records of rarities within these islands considered by one body and collected together into one report are obvious, and it is very much to be hoped that a ha...

Notes

01 January 1964 Comments Notes Fulmar incubating eggs of Herring Gull with its own.--On 27th May 1963 I was walking along a cliff top four miles south of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, when I surprised a Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis off its nest. As it flew, a brown egg rolled out and smashed on t...

Herd Composition and Dispersion in The Whooper Swan

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper Park, Banffshire, it became apparent that, within the herd that gathered during the autumn passage, swans in family parties (i.e. adults accompanied by young birds) were less wary and fed more widely spread out along the narrow part of the loch than swans...

British Bird-Photographers I. Seton Gordon

01 January 1964 Comments Main paper W I T H T H I S ISSUE we start a new series of plates devoted to the work of individual bird-photographers. At irregular intervals, three or four times a year, we propose to publish a selection of the best photographs by the well known and the not so well...

Winter Visitors

01 January 1964 Comments Editorials In many areas it was a poor autumn for visible migration of thrushes because conditions were seldom right to bring the birds low enough. However, big movements of Redwings Turdus iliacus were widely commented on 14th, I9th-20th, 22nd-23td and especially 2...

Recent reports

01 January 1964 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary covers the five weeks from n t h October to 15th November, with the addition of a few earlier observations. It thus follows the one in the November issue {Brit. Birds, 5 6: 427-...

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