News and comment

01 June 1973 Comments News and comment Towards realistic penalties? During the last two or three years there have been too many occasions when it has been necessary to deplore an apparent upsurge of interest in egg collecting resulting in the robbing of nests of rarer species, notab...
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Letters

01 June 1973 Comments Letters Wallcreeper on migration in the Netherlands Dr H. Lohrl's statement (Brit. Birds, 63 : 167) that the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria is non-migratory has been challenged by David Elias, H. G. Alexander, Guy Mountfort and K. D. Smith (Brit. Birds...
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Notes

01 June 1973 Comments Notes Aggression by female Buzzard at nest I was intrigued by the recent note from G. A. Williams and D. Coan on aggression by a female Buzzard Buteo buteo {Brit. Birds, 66: 31-32). O n 26th April 1944, in a large stand of mature Scots pines on a Lak...
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Studies of Sparrowhawks

01 June 1973 Comments Main paper Roy Blewitt's photographs are the first of the Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus to be published in British Birds since the long series which accompanied J. H. Owen's remarkable studies during 1916-36. They show well the uniform upperparts (plates 41a, 42b, ...
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Recent reports

01 May 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records February 1973 was a mild, relatively dry month. There was a distinct change in the weather around 11th-12th when north-westerly winds brought snow over much of Britain. From about 16th to 1...
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News and comment

01 May 1973 Comments News and comment Restricting trade in endangered species One of the hazards threatening scarce animal and plant species has been the international, and usually commercial, trade in live specimens and in products from dead ones, such as skins and pelts. In an en...
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Letters

01 May 1973 Comments Letters The Moorhen's ability to remain submerged A recent note by R. W. Robson (Brit. Birds, 65: 299-300) and the appended editorial comment suggest that it is unusual for Moorhens Gallinula chloropus to submerge for long periods of time, especially w...
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Reviews

01 May 1973 Comments Reviews Waders in New Zealand. By Elaine Power. Collins, Auckland and London, 1972. 21 plates, with two-page key. £1.75. This book is the second in a series intended to present pleasant collections of bird portraits, so prompting a wider interest in t...
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Notes

01 May 1973 Comments Notes Little Grebe eating bread On 7th October 1972, in Dunham Park, Cheshire, I was watching three Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis, two adults and a juvenile, feeding on a pond at the side of a public footpath. There were also about 20 tame Mal...
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