Recent reports

01 August 1999
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers 7th June to 5th July 1999. The text and photographs relate to unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris One 16 km south of Looe (Cornwall), 19th June, photographed...
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News and Comment

01 August 1999
Comments News and comment We all know the story of the toxic sludge that spilled from the Aznalcollar mine in Spain on 25th April 1998. Spanish conservationists claim that some 70,000 birds have been heavily contaminated. There is still uncertainty about continuing environmenta...
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Monthly marathon

01 August 1999
Comments Other The affinities of the dumpy, small-billed bird depicted in June's photograph (plate 104, repeated here as plate 159) may not have been immediately obvious to some readers, the bird perhaps bearing a resemblance to a dove Streptopelia or even a lark (Al...
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Reviews

01 August 1999
Comments Reviews By Lars Svensson & Peter J. Grant; illustrated by Killian Mullarney & Dan Zetterstrøm; translated by David Christie. HarperCollins, London, 1999. 400 pages; 3,500 paintings; about 700 distribution maps. ISBN 0-00-219728-6. Hardback £24.99. We...
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Letters

01 August 1999
Comments Letters I completely agree with the comments of Dr J. T. R. Sharrock (Brit. Birds 92: 62-63) and Anthony McGeehan (Brit. Birds 92: 212-213), and so do many others whom I know. I should, however, like to remind Mr McGeehan that, although Ireland is indeed a che...
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Announcements

01 August 1999
Comments Editorials Subscribers can claim a 10% reduction on the following overseas birdwatching trips in the year 2000 with the bird-tour company, `Sunbird'. 12th-20th February NORTHERN ISRAEL with Sean McMinn and Hadoram Shirihai, for winter specialities such as Imperia...
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What, no running water?

01 August 1999
Comments Main paper I am standing on a minor road in the middle of farmland typical of central England. Along one side of the road there is a bit of a ditch, with some scattered remains of a hedgerow, a tree here and there, and a barbed-wire fence, but mostly an open boun...
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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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