Recent reports

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This deals with January 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The only really significant weather feature in a fairly mild, wet month was a short spell of freezing north-east...
Read More

News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment Golden Jubilee The International Council for Bird Preservation was formed in 1922, mainly through the foresight of an American, T. Gilbert Pearson, then president of what is now the National Audubon Society; the inaugural meeting was held in London on 20...
Read More

Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
Read More

Reviews

13 March 2014 Comments Reviews African Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins, London, 1971. 320 p a g e s ; 12 black-and-white plates. £2.25. This well-produced, smallish book covers the 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls which inhabit Africa. The author is, of course, a well-known...
Read More

Notes

13 March 2014 Comments Notes Shags laying two clutches Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis have long been considered capable of producing two broods in one breeding season, but direct evidence of this is lacking (see The Handbook, vol 4; D. A. Bannerman, 1959, The Birds of the British Is...
Read More

News and comment

01 December 1981 Comments News and comment New NNRs The Nature Conservancy Council has announced the creation of two new National Nature Reserves. The Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods NNR, covering some 300 ha, has been formed with three major additions to the former Workmans NNR: the co...
Read More

Requests

01 December 1981 Comments Editorials Winter Atlas The BTO and the Irish Wildbird Conservancy have launched a major project, the Winter Adas. Fieldwork starts in mid November and continues until the end of February in each of. the next three winters (in 1981/82, the precise dates a...
Read More

Announcements

01 December 1981 Comments Editorials Gift subscriptions Readers are reminded that special gift cards are available so that British Birds can be given as a present to a friend. You may obtain such gift subscriptions at the same rate as your own; the gift card will be sent separatel...
Read More

Diary dates

01 December 1981 Comments Editorials This list covers events taking place during January to December 1982. We welcome submission of details for possible inclusion in the next list, coveringjuly 1982 to June 1983.  8th-10th January BTO RINGING AND MIGRATION CONFERENCE. Hayes C...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now