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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1967

01 August 1968 Comments Main paper This is the tenth annual report of the Rarities Committee. Some 480 records for 1967 have been considered, an increase of about 120 (33%) on the final total for 1966 and approximately 180 (60%) more than in 1964. The proportion of records accepted is 82%,...

Letters

01 August 1968 Comments Letters Waxwing omission Sirs,--Owing to a regrettable oversight, our paper on 'Waxwings in Britain and Europe during 1965/66' (Brit. Birds, 6 1 : 97-118) failed to acknowledge the work of T. Ennis and the Northern Ireland Ornithologists' Club in sending us recor...

Recent reports

01 August 1968 Comments News and comment (These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary covers June 1968 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. A few June reports were mentioned last month {Brit. Birds, 6 1 : 527-528) where they were particula...

News and comments

01 August 1968 Comments News and comment Industrial threats to the south-west.--The Western Morning News for 17th and 23rd May contained news of important industrial proposals likely to mar natural amenities in Devon and Cornwall. These proposals include examinations of six possible sites for po...

Notes

01 August 1968 Comments Notes Curlew's nest with seven eggs.--In April and May 1968 a pair of Curlews Nuwemus arquata were seen on at least six occasions by Mrs. R. Barnes and ourselves at a traditional breeding site in a marshy field near Purton, Wiltshire. On n t h May I.W.Y. flushe...

Dowitcher identification

01 August 1968 Comments Main paper During a long argument over the specific identity of a dowitcher Ldmnodromus sp. that frequented the Hayle estuary, Cornwall, from 30th October 1966 to 22nd April 1967 and was even trapped on one occasion, many observers found themselves confused by the i...

Seasonal fluctuations in the song of the Sky-Lark

01 February 1947 Comments Main paper ALTHOUGH a great deal has been written on the subject of bird song, relatively little is known about seasonal and daily fluctuations in song output. Alexander's [i, 2] work accounts for a very large number of species and gives the dates between which bir...

Letters

01 February 1947 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference to Colonel Ryves's note (antea, Vol. xxxix, p. 375} oa a clutch of two eggs only, of the Blackbird (Turdus Â»Â». merula), I wish to point out that this number of eggs for a full clutch is not extremely abnormal. I cannot but thin...

Reviews

01 February 1947 Comments Reviews South-Eastern Bird Report, being an Account of Bird-Life in Kent, Surrey and Sussex during 1944. Edited by Ralph Whitlock. Ditto (including Hampshire) for 1945. THE 1944 South-Eastern Report, delayed by printing difficulties, was not available when our no...

Notes

01 February 1947 Comments Notes ON April ioth, 1946, at Englefield Green, Surrey, I watched a Starling (Sturnus v. vulgaris) singing on the ground, everywhere following another which, completely ignoring him, was busily engaged in feeding. Each time the feeding bird stopped, the singer...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1967

Letters

Recent reports

News and comments

Notes

Dowitcher identification

Seasonal fluctuations in the song of the Sky-Lark

Letters

Reviews

Notes

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