Mystery photographs

01 May 1993
Comments Main paper In each of last month's mystery photographs (plates 36 & 37, repeated here), the bulky bird with the white wing-flashes is the same individual. like the author, readers will be relieved to learn that this is the mystery bird, and that they were not...
Read More

Mystery photographs

01 August 1992
Comments Main paper Readers will have had little difficulty in identifying the bird in last month's mystery photograph (plate 136, repeated here) as a lark (Alaudidae), and the prominence of its crest alone eliminates all but two of the 22 species which have been rec...
Read More

Notes

01 July 1991
Comments Notes Bewick's Swan resembling Whooper Swan. On 19th February 1989, J. A. McGeoch informed me of the presence of an interesting immature Bewick's Swan Cygnus columbianus near Wells, Somerset. On the following day, I obtained a photograph of the bird (pl...
Read More

Notes

01 June 1990
Comments Notes Alpine Swift 'playing' with piece of paper. At 10.00 GMT on 20th June 1985, in sunny conditions with little wind at Les Baux, France, I watched several Alpine Swifts Apus melba with Swifts A. apus feeding 100-200 m up in the vicinity of the old village...
Read More

Short reviews

01 January 1990
Comments Reviews Birds of North Rona and Sula Sgeir. By Seabirds at Sea Team: Stuart Benn, Stuart Murray and Mark L. Tasker. (Nature Conservancy Council, Peterborough, 1989. 47 pages. Paperback £5.00). A remarkably comprehensive and concise publication on two of Scotl...
Read More

Reviews

01 February 1989
Comments Reviews Birds of the Middle East and North Africa. By P. A. D. Hollom, R. F. Porter, S. Christensen and Ian Willis. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton, 1988. 320 pages; 710 colour illustrations; 182 line-drawings; 499 distribution maps. £14.00.This publication rep...
Read More

Reviews

01 December 1986
Comments Reviews The Secret Life of an Oakwood: a photographic essay. By Stephen Dalton with Jill Bailey. Century, London, 1986, 160 pages; 145 colour plates. £14.95.  Stunning! That is really the only word to describe this 'photographic essay" on a small oa...
Read More

Mystery photographs

01 November 1986
Comments Main paper The size and structure of last month's mystery bird (plate 264, repeated here) are obviously those of a warbler. The combination of generally unmarked upperparts, rather small bill, noticeable supercilium and non-rounded tail suggests a Phylloscopus. I...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now