News and comment

01 May 1966
Comments News and comment Retirement of E . M. Nicholson from the Nature Conservancy.--By far the most significant development in the field of conservation in Britain in the years since the last war has been the establishment of the Nature Conservancy and its subsequent growth int...
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Letters

01 May 1966
Comments Letters The identification of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbler Sirs,--The letter from Dr. C. Suffern on the subject of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti (Brit. Birds, 56: 516-518) contains so many mis-statements that a detailed exposure would be tedious bot...
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Reviews

01 May 1966
Comments Reviews Project Mat: the conservation and management of temperate marshes, bogs and other wetlands. Volume i, Proceedings of the Mar Conference, compiled by the IWRB/MAR Bureau under Dr. L. Hoffmann; IUCN Publications new series, no. 3, 1964; 475 pages; F.25 or &...
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Notes

01 May 1966
Comments Notes Surface-feeding and up-ending by Goosander.--In December 1965 and early January 1966, at Chew Valley Lake, Somerset, one and sometimes two female Goosanders Mergus merganser regularly fed close to the shore in shallow water near the mouth of a small strea...
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News and Comment

01 April 1955
Comments News and comment A new edition of the Field Guide.--Many bird-watchers find it difficult to remember the time when A. Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, by Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort and P. A. D . Hollom, was not as essential a part of their equipment...
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Reviews

01 April 1955
Comments Reviews T h e P o p u l a r H a n d b o o k of British Birds. By P . A. D . H o l l o m . 3rd (revised) edition. Witherby, L o n d o n , 1962. xxiii-f-511 p a g e s ; 151 plates. 48s. When The Popular Handbook first appeared in 1952, it made available to a far wi...
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Notes

01 April 1955
Comments Notes Ringed Plover breeding on cliff top,--In mid-June 1962 D . Carr, R, M. Lockley and I found a pair of Ringed Plovers {Charadrim hiaiicula) breeding on top of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire, within a hundred yards of the cliff edge. The site was a fairly l...
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