Recent reports

01 January 2010
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early November to early December 2009. Headlines During a very stormy period, it was birds at sea that caught the eye most, with the best being a Fregetta storm-petrel in the Severn estuary, a Pacific Diver nearby...
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Reviews

01 January 2010
Comments Reviews By Paul Mason and Jake Allsop Poyser, 2009 Hbk, 280pp, many photographs, vignettes and tables ISBN 978-0-7136-7683-9 Subbuteo code M20081 £45.00 BB Bookshop price £36.00 This is the latest in the long-running and gener- ally excellent series ...
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Letters

01 January 2010
Comments Letters In 2007, I was surprised to read (in Flood & Thomas 2007, p. 418) that I had seen a dark- rumped Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus near South Georgia, when what I saw was a bird with markings resembling those of Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma le...
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Recent Reports

01 June 1978
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers March and the first half of April; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to March. Despite a rather bright start to the month, March was a dreary period for bird...
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News and Comment

01 June 1978
Comments News and comment Westray mink farm enquiry Following a growing chorus of protests from local and national individuals and conservation organisations, the Secretary of State for Scotland held a public local enquiry under the Town and Country Planning Act at Kirk...
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