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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

The flight behaviour of Starlings at a winter roost

01 February 1976 Comments Main paper Co-ordinated flying displays by flocks of Starlings Sturnus vulgaris are often a feature at pre-roosting areas, but the most spectacular displays occur at the main roost, when very large numbers of birds fly together, prior to final roosting. On many e...

Laying dates of four species of tits in Wytham Wood, Oxfordshire

01 February 1976 Comments Main paper It has been argued by Perrins (1970) that laying a large clutch imposes a considerable extra load on the food-gathering abilities of a small bird. From this, he suggested that the date at which individual birds in a population begin laying is related t...

News and comment

01 July 1967 Comments News and comment Annual report of British Section of I.C.B.P.--The recently published annual report of the British Section of the International Council for Bird Preservation provides evidence of much efficient work carried out during i0t. This and the previous annual repo...

Reviews

01 July 1967 Comments Reviews The Shell Bird Book. By James Fisher. Ebury Press and Michael Joseph, London, 1966. 344 pages; 20 colour plates and 150 blackand-white illustrations. 25 s. The title of this book gives little help to the intending purchaser. Without knowing the author, he...

Notes

01 July 1967 Comments Notes Call-notes of Slavonian and Black-necked Grebes in autumn.-- On 24th September 1966, at the Queen Mary Reservoir, Middlesex, I heard an unfamiliar call which I eventually traced to an apparently immature Slavonian Grebe Podkeps auritus. It persistently ut...

Pied-billed Grebe in Somerset

01 July 1967 Comments Main paper an old record in Dorset in 1881, which has never been generally accepted, the first Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podkeps to be recorded in Britain was observed at Blagdon Lake, Somerset, in December 1963 (Brit. Birds, 58: 305-309). Twenty months later, in...

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September and October report

News and Comment

Reviews

Notes

The flight behaviour of Starlings at a winter roost

Laying dates of four species of tits in Wytham Wood, Oxfordshire

News and comment

Reviews

Notes

Pied-billed Grebe in Somerset

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