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Recent reports - May

01 August 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records May was a month of unsettled weather, generally warm in most parts of Britain but with above average rainfall in some places. The presence during the first week of an area of high pressure ...

Notes

01 August 1973 Comments Notes Death of Great Crested Grebe in unusual circumstances On 26th June 1971, at Rostherne Mere National Nature Reserve, Cheshire, I observed a pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus in what appeared to be normal courtship display. One part...

Predation of migrant birds by gulls

01 August 1973 Comments Main paper Gulls Larus have a very diverse feeding ecology, but vertebrates form a significant part of the diet of some species (Tinbergen 1953). They are well known for their depredations on the eggs and young of colonial seabirds; they also attack and kill inju...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1972

01 August 1973 Comments Main paper This is the fifteenth annual report of the Rarities Committee. The composition of the committee is now D. I. M. Wallace (chairman), F. R. Smith (honorary secretary), D. G. Bell, A. R. M. Blake, P. E. Davis, R. H. Dennis, P.J. Grant, R.J.Johns, R. A. Ri...

Current developments in the work of the Rarities Committee

01 August 1973 Comments Main paper During 1972, and more particularly at its annual meeting in March 1973, the Rarities Committee has reviewed many points of policy and practice. Conscious of the criticism that it periodically attracts, it remains anxious to conduct its work as openly a...

Reviews

01 July 1962 Comments Reviews Photographing Garden Birds. By C. H. S. Tupholme. Faber, London, 1962. 127 pages; 4 colour and 6 monochrome photographs. 18s. Some excellent suggestions are given on methods of attracting wild birds into the garden by establishing various trees, shrubs an...

Notes

01 July 1962 Comments Notes Water Rail killing Little Stint and Eel.--With reference to the recent notes on Water Rails (Rallus aquaticus) killing a Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) and other small Passerines {Brit. Birds, 55: 132-133 and 165), I should like to record that on 4th Sept...

Irish Golden Eagles and a link with Scotland

01 July 1962 Comments Main paper of the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in northern Britain (see, for example, Nicholson 1957). Among the likely factors are the wartime respite from persecution, which probably resulted in a "post-war bulge" of surplus immatures, and the major shift in a...

An Ornithological sketch of the Barycz Valley in Poland

01 July 1962 Comments Main paper in western Poland, has long been famous for its birds. It is one of the few places in central Europe where such rare species as White-tailed Eagle, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Kite, Grey Lag Goose, Crane, Black Stork, Purple Heron* and others are concentrated i...

Feeding behaviour of the Turnstone in Arctic Canada

01 July 1962 Comments Main paper In 1955 we spent six months on northern Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, conducting field studies to obtain information for the National Museum of Canada on the breeding cycles of birds in the far north. The principal area of investigation was Fos...

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Recent reports - May

Notes

Predation of migrant birds by gulls

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1972

Current developments in the work of the Rarities Committee

Reviews

Notes

Irish Golden Eagles and a link with Scotland

An Ornithological sketch of the Barycz Valley in Poland

Feeding behaviour of the Turnstone in Arctic Canada

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