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September and October report

01 February 1976 Comments News and comment The weather in early September was mainly anticyclonic but an airstream from the west and south-west took over, being particularly prominent from mid-month with gale force winds on several occasions. In October the picture changed, with many warm, dry ...

News and Comment

01 February 1976 Comments News and comment Appointments to the Scientific Authority for Animals The Secretary for the Environment has appointed twelve members of the Scientific Authority for Animals to give advice on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fa...

Reviews

01 February 1976 Comments Reviews Watching Sea Birds. By Richard Perry. Groom Helm, London, 1975. 230 pages; 16 line-drawings; 2 maps. £4.75. This is not really a new book but a reprinting of parts of two of the author's earlier books, both of which--Lundy Isle of Puffins (194...

Notes

01 February 1976 Comments Notes Peregrine and Raven possibly contaminated by Fulmar oil With reference to R. A. Broad's paper on Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis oil contamination (Brit. Birds, 67: 297-301), the following observations of possible oiling may be of interest. On 10th J...

The flight behaviour of Starlings at a winter roost

01 February 1976 Comments Main paper Co-ordinated flying displays by flocks of Starlings Sturnus vulgaris are often a feature at pre-roosting areas, but the most spectacular displays occur at the main roost, when very large numbers of birds fly together, prior to final roosting. On many e...

Laying dates of four species of tits in Wytham Wood, Oxfordshire

01 February 1976 Comments Main paper It has been argued by Perrins (1970) that laying a large clutch imposes a considerable extra load on the food-gathering abilities of a small bird. From this, he suggested that the date at which individual birds in a population begin laying is related t...

Letter

01 March 1945 Comments Letters SIRS,--I am collecting all the information I can on clutch size and nesting success in the Robin (Erithacus rubecula), and should be very grateful for any unpublished information which readers could supply. Every nest record is of value, both from Britain...

Reviews

01 March 1945 Comments Reviews Ornithological Report for Northumberland and Durham for 1943. Compiled by G. W. Temperley (The Naturalist, July-September, 1944). I N spite of war-time curtailment of opportunities for bird observation this carefully compiled report contains a noteworthy...

Notes

01 March 1945 Comments Notes IN reference to Mr. David Lack's note on Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula) singing in London at the end of January (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p. 116), in some parts of London such as Kensington, where there are many houses with gardens, it is quite exceptional fo...

Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper O N August 7th, 1944, while studying birds on the salt-marsh round Tetney Creek, Lines., on the Humber estuary, I observed two or three smallish diving-duck which puzzled me ; and on August 8th, independently, S/Ldr. Peter Hill saw the birds in the same p...

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September and October report

News and Comment

Reviews

Notes

The flight behaviour of Starlings at a winter roost

Laying dates of four species of tits in Wytham Wood, Oxfordshire

Letter

Reviews

Notes

Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

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