September and October report

01 February 1976
Comments News and comment The weather in early September was mainly anticyclonic but an airstream from the west and south-west took over, being particularly prominent from mid-month with gale force winds on several occasions. In October the picture changed, with many warm, dry ...
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News and Comment

01 February 1976
Comments News and comment Appointments to the Scientific Authority for Animals The Secretary for the Environment has appointed twelve members of the Scientific Authority for Animals to give advice on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fa...
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Reviews

01 February 1976
Comments Reviews Watching Sea Birds. By Richard Perry. Groom Helm, London, 1975. 230 pages; 16 line-drawings; 2 maps. £4.75. This is not really a new book but a reprinting of parts of two of the author's earlier books, both of which--Lundy Isle of Puffins (194...
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Notes

01 February 1976
Comments Notes Peregrine and Raven possibly contaminated by Fulmar oil With reference to R. A. Broad's paper on Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis oil contamination (Brit. Birds, 67: 297-301), the following observations of possible oiling may be of interest. On 10th J...
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Recent reports and news

01 March 1958
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 writer's judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted in case a report ...
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Request for information

01 March 1958
Comments Editorials The 1957 irruptions of tits and other species.--The organisers report a good response to the earlier appeals (antea, vol. L, pp. 495 and 542) for information about the movements of tits (Parus spp). and other birds in the autumn of 1957. For England and W...
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Letters

01 March 1958
Comments Letters I N F O R M A T I O N W A N T E D ON L A P W I N G C H I C K S S I R S , -- F r o m observations made over a number of years on the growth and development of young Lapwings (Vanellus vanellus), it would appear that early hatching chicks develop more rapid...
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Reviews

01 March 1958
Comments Reviews By N . F . TICEHURST. (Cleaver-Hume, London, 1957). 131 p a g e s ; 32 plates in blackand-white and two-colour line. 35s. T H E LITTLE we know of the past history of birds in Britain is derived from archaelogical research during" prehistoric excavations,...
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