May report

01 September 1976 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during May was generally warm with several hot spells, particularly in the second week, and was dominated by winds from a southerly quarter, which encouraged the overshooting of so...
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News and Comment

01 September 1976 Comments News and comment Endangered species The expected failure of the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Bill to become law in this Parliamentary session (Brit. Birds, 69: 156157) will allow conservationists and Government alike time to consider the reasoning behind passing...
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Letters

01 January 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--May I be spared a little space to invite the attention of your readers to the Annual Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. This Report, the last issue of which you were good enough t...
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Notes

01 January 1929 Comments Notes ON May 4th, 1928, I watched a Goldfinch (Carduelis c. britannica) snapping off the stalks, about two inches from the head, of some " Forget-me-nots " (Myosotis) in our garden in west Sussex. The bird, which was accompanied by a second bird, soon flew off...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 January 1929 Comments Main paper No. Place and Date Ringed. ROOK (Corvus f. 78936 24879 24882 Near Huddlesceugh Hall (Cumb.), 23.4.26, nestling, by R. H . Brown. Near Gt. Budworth (Ches.), 30.6.26, bird of the year, by A. W. Boyd. Ditto ditto Place and Date Recovered. frugilegus). Newby,...
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Autumn habit of the Rooks

01 January 1929 Comments Main paper THE aerial performances of Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) in autumn, as described by the Rev. E. U. Savage (antea, p. 57), have, I venture to suggest, a territorial significance. The visits of these birds to their nesting place or home are always attended b...
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