Recent reports

01 June 1985
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in the report refer to March unless otherwise stated. Weather and early spring migration. The month began with mild, unsettled westerly weather, becoming progre...
Read More

News and comment

01 June 1985
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Oriental Bird Club. No less than 129 enthusiasts trekked to that infamous Eastern city, Norwich, on 23rd March, for the inaugural meeting of the Oriental Bird Club...
Read More

Announcements

01 June 1985
Comments Editorials 'The Birdwatcher's A-Z' was named as 'The "British Birds" Best Bird Book of the Year' for 1981 (Brit. Birds 74: 411). The review in British Birds (74: 409-410) referred to it as 'a most useful addition to any birdwatcher's library'. Its price then was ...
Read More

Letters

01 June 1985
Comments Letters Bill coloration of treecreepers. The note by Laurel Tucker (Brit. Birds 77: 263-264) questions if the upper mandible coloration could assist in the field separation of the two European treecreepers Certhia. Photographs, in Vara Figlar i Norden (1942) b...
Read More

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...
Read More

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

Subscribe Now