The first 100 years

01 January 2009 Comments Strictly speaking, this editorial should have appeared in the June 2007 issue, when British Birds will be truly 100 years old. For practical purposes, however, we have decided to celebrate BB's centenary throughout 2007 and Vol. 100 of the journal. The...
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Letters

01 October 1950 Comments Letters --I am engaged in investigating t h e ringing records of Blue Tits. Amongst the known causes of death it is astonishing to find that the mousetrap is a principal one. I t may be necessary to place r a t and mouse traps in gardens, b u t I suggest that the...
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Notes

01 October 1950 Comments Notes WITH reference to the note (antea, p. 54) on this topic, in June, 1949, an Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura) made repeated stoops at my companion, Dr. H. K. Whitehouse, while he was standing by the bank of the river in Hvalfjordur a few yards from our camp in...
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