Notes

01 September 1997 Comments Notes The 'Notes' section of British Birds has a history as long as that of the journal itself, providing the opportunity for mostly amateur birdwatchers--as well as the professionals--to record their observations for posterity. For many, this will be the fi...
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Mystery Photographs

01 September 1997 Comments Main paper Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria, the North American counterpart of the familiar Green Sandpiper T. ochropus, is a rare transatlantic visitor to Europe, where the majority have been in Britain & Ireland (29 individuals up to the end of 1995...
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Recent reports

01 February 1975 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records October 1974 was the coldest in England since 1917. An anticyclone situated in mid-Atlantic persisted throughout the month, producing a cold airstream from the north with several pe...
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News and comment

01 February 1975 Comments News and comment Changing American attitudes to collecting? In 'News and comment' for July 1974 {Brit. Birds, 67: 304-305), I referred at length to disquieting attitudes held in some quarters in North America (especially the USA) towards scientific collecting; ...
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The Common Birds Census

01 February 1975 Comments Editorials Thirteen breeding seasons have now passed since the British Trust for Ornithology started its very successful Common Birds Census. The main aim of the scheme has been to keep an annual check on the population levels of our more common birds. The techni...
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Request for information

01 February 1975 Comments Editorials Checklist of the birds of The Gambia A comprehensive checklist of the birds of The Gambia is currently being prepared by Jens Kirkeby and Jorn Vestergaard Jensen in co-operation with the Gambian Ornithologists' Society. It is intended that this...
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Letters

01 February 1975 Comments Letters Bill colour of juvenile Arctic Terns Graham Bundy {Brit. Birds, 67: 246-247) stated that the bills of juvenile Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea on their breeding grounds in Shetland have definite red or orange at the base, this being at variance ...
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