Recent reports

01 May 1994
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 22nd March to 17th April 1994 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris Regular individual returned to Hermaness (Shetland), 26th March. Black Stork Cico...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 1994
Comments Other February's breast-banded passerine (plate 33) was named as Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris (66%), Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra (21%), Bimaculated Lark M. bimaculata (11%) and Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla (2%), It was a juvenile Ho...
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Letters

01 February 1952
Comments Letters SIRS,--In your September issue (antea, vol. xliv, p. 314) is a sight record by Mr. D. D. Harber oi a "Sooty Shearwater" seen off the Sussex coast, "some way out" to sea. The bird is described simply as " a large, all-black shearwater with a rather heavy b...
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Reviews

01 February 1952
Comments Reviews Grenlands Fugle. Part II. By Finn Saiomensen. Illustrated by GitzJohansen. (Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1951. 66s.). The second part of this important work deals with the Ptarmigan, the waders, skuas and galls and the Arctic Tern; as its prohibitive cost and ...
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