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The birds of the Western Palearctic' and 'The Handbook on British Birds'

01 January 1967 Comments Editorials 'The Birds of the Western Palearctic' and 'The Handbook of British Birds' Our recent editorial about the new project on The Birds of the Western Palearctic {Brit. Birds, 59: 321-324) appears to have caused a misunderstanding concerning the value to ornith...

News and comment

01 January 1967 Comments News and comment ...

Letters

01 January 1967 Comments Letters 'Meat or sickly sweets' Sirs,--I entirely disagree with Philip S. Redman (Brk. Birds, 59: 390). It seems to me that a really comprehensive interest in ornithology must extend beyond the birds to those who have made outstanding contributions to our knowled...

Reviews

01 January 1967 Comments Reviews Ireland's Birds: Their Distribution and Migrations. By Robert F. Ruttledge. Witherby, London, 1966. 207 pages; 11 plates and a map. 30s. Ireland has not been specially noted for its ornithology in the past; the birds were known to be there, when people we...

Notes

01 January 1967 Comments Notes Heron apparently fishing i n deep water.--The observations below were made by us independently on two separate days, but, because the behaviour was so similar on each occasion as to suggest that it might be the not infrequent habit of one individual, the ...

British bird photographers: 8. John Markham

01 January 1967 Comments Main paper portant survey of the status of the birds which breed in Britain and Ireland, it seems appropriate that the plates should be a selection taken in the British Isles by an outstanding bird-photographer w h o has resisted the temptations of foreign travel an...

Changes in status among breeding birds in Britain and Ireland

01 January 1967 Comments Main paper survey by Nicholson (1926), Alexander and Lack (1944) reviewed the many changes in status which had occurred among the breeding birds of Britain and Ireland during the hundred years up to the time of the 1939-45 war. Since then there has been an enormous ...

Editorial

01 January 1967 Comments Editorials SINCE THE 1939-45 WAR, interest in ornithology in Britain and Ireland has grown strikingly, with perhaps a ten-fold increase in the number of amateur field-observers and an even more marked rise in the number of professional workers. Knowledge has grown c...

Bird foods and feeding-habits as subjects for Amateur research

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper I N THE STRAIGHT-FORWARD, descriptive natural history of any species, the food which it eats is an obvious item. T h e century and a half of scientific ornithology which has followed The Natural History of Selborne has seen the compilation of qualitative ...

Notes on Nesting Nightjars

01 July 1957 Comments Main paper THE following observations were made in late June and early July 1952-56, round Westleton in Suffolk, where Nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) breed not uncommonly on sandy heaths similar to those where I studied the species fifty miles N . N . W . , round...

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