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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...

Letters

01 April 1963 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. Miller Christy, in his very interesting letter in your last issue (p. 91), remarks t h a t I have n o t done justice t o the bird-life on Walthamstow Reservoirs, b u t I must point o u t t h a t m y note was only intended to record t h e nestin...

Reviews

01 April 1963 Comments Reviews Aberdeen University Bird-migration Inquiry: First Interim Report (1909-12). By A. Landsborough Thomson, M.A., M.B.O.U. (Reprinted from the Scottish Naturalist, July, October, November, 1912 ; February, April and June, 1913.) THESE papers give details of t...

Notes

01 April 1963 Comments Notes W E have received a good many schedules relating to these two inquiries (see Vol. VI., pp. 296-311, and Vol. VII, pp. 4-6), but we sincerely hope that many more of our readers will send in particulars. This should now be done without delay, and if the fo...

On Incubation

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper As has previously been shown,* many birds belonging to various Orders commence incubation upon the laying of the first egg. This habit is undoubtedly of the utmost value to many species, saving the eggs from destruction by the numerous animals which devou...

Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Common Eider. As Observed in the Outer Hebrides.

01 April 1963 Comments Main paper this summer (1913) we found a good many pairs of Eiders (Somateria m. mollissima) nesting in the northern portion of a certain large fresh-water loch in the Outer Hebrides, The birds were, however, very shy at the nest, and even with a long-focus lens it ...

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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

Letters

Reviews

Notes

On Incubation

Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Common Eider. As Observed in the Outer Hebrides.

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