Letters

01 August 1995
Comments Letters The female Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater at Jomfruland, Kragero, Telemark, Norway, on 1st June 1987 was not just 'found dead' as stated by McKay (1994). The bird was alive and feeding with Greenfinches Carduelis Moris on the ground in the garden of ...
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Reviews

01 October 1983
Comments Reviews The Birds of Africa. Volume I. By Leslie H. Brown, Emil K. Urban and Kenneth Newman. Academic Press, London, 1982. 521 pages; 28 colour plates; 4 black-and-white plates; many line-drawings and maps. £53.40. This is a huge book: just as heavy a...
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Recent reports

01 October 1983
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked - ~ reports, not authenticated records Dates in this report refer to July except where stated otherwise. In contrast to the cool unsettled spring weather, July was one of the hottest on record. A warm anticyclonic ar...
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