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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...

Recent reports

01 February 1965 Comments News and comment (These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is concerned with the two months from late November to late January. It thus follows on after those in the December and January issues {Brit. Birds, 57: 523-524; 58: 31-32) and ...

News and Comment

01 February 1965 Comments News and comment Ten years of ' T h e Ring'--The King, a journal devoted to the broad international aspects of bird-ringing, recently had its tenth anniversary. The first edition of this quarterly, -which is edited by Dr. W, Rydzcwski and published by the Polish Zoologica...

Request for information

01 February 1965 Comments Editorials Past breeding success of Golden Eagles in Scotland.--In view of the disquieting report by Dr. J. D. Lockic and Dr. D. A. Ratcliffe of a marked decline in the nesting success of Golden Eagles Aquih chrysaefos in a part of western Scotland (Brii. Birds, 57:...

Notes

01 February 1965 Comments Notes Unusual numbers of Sooty Shearwaters in the eastern English Channel.--A substantial passage of Sooty Shearwaters Procellaria griseusflyingwestwards down the English Channel was observed at Cap Gris Nez, Pas de Calais, France, at the time of a westerly gal...

Europe takes stocks of its birds

01 February 1965 Comments Main paper Report o n the Woridng Conference o n Birds of Prey and O w l s {Caen, France, April 1964). Published by the International Council for Bird Preservation, London, 1964. 140 p a g e s ; 8 halftone plates. 17s. 6d. Proceedings of the First European Meeting o...

Studies of less familiar birds:132. Spur-winged Plover

01 February 1965 Comments Main paper T H E S P U R - W I N G E D P L O V E R Hop lop terns spinosus is one of a number of round-winged plovers with much black and white in the plumage (notably on the wings and tail), which are now generally united in the genus Vanellus. Most of this group di...

Flight patterns of the European bustards

01 February 1965 Comments Main paper T H E B U S T A R D S , as a family, are terrestial birds and spend the major part of their time on the ground, but both the Great Bustard Otis tarda and the Little Bustard O. tetrax frequently indulge in short flights and take to the air readily if appro...

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