Recent reports and News

01 August 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Notes

01 August 1959 Comments Notes Display flight of Bitterns.--On 18th May 1959, at midday, I saw three Bitterns (Botaurus stellaris) rise from a re,ed-bed near Walberswick, Suffolk, and mount in a fresh N . E . breeze to a height which I estimated to be 600 or 700 feet. Not much wingflap...
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Watching migration by radar

01 August 1959 Comments Main paper So FAR AS I know, the first time that radar echoes were definitely identified as coming from birds was in the spring of 1940, when an experimental equipment on a wavelength of 50 cm. at Christchurch, Hampshire, detected gulls (Larus spp.) (Shire, 1958). U...
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Editorial: Records of rare birds

01 August 1959 Comments Editorials DURING the past year or more there has been a growing realization that a large number of birds formerly thought to be rarities are reaching the British Isles regularly, and even in some numbers. In some cases a change of habit or expansion of breeding dis...
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Letters

01 March 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--We were interested to read Mr. Nelder's letter in your November, 1952, number (antea, vol. xlv, p. 430) and feel we should like to dispel any idea that possible bias in the collection of records is not already fully appreciated by those responsible...
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Reviews

01 March 1953 Comments Reviews The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1951. The first seven pages of this report are occupied by an account of the various concerted inquiries by the Society the utility of which it is not possible to evaluate from a single years' work. This must be l...
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Reviews

01 March 1953 Comments Reviews Check-List of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. Prepared b y the List Sub-Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union. (B.O.U., 1952). Obtainable from H. F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., 7s. 6d. This list is the result of work begun about 6 years ago. It ...
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Notes

01 March 1953 Comments Notes Red-throated Diver taking off from the ground.--With reference to the note on this subject (antea, vol. xlv, p. 331), I write to record that on February 25th, 1951, at Hornsea Mere, Yorkshire, I saw a Red-throated Diver (Colymbus stellatus) apparently sl...
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