Search

List of county and regional recorders in Britain and Ireland

13 March 2014 Comments Editorials The main aims of this list of bird recorders and editors are to ensure that observers on holiday away from their home areas send records to the right people, to encourage co-operation at the inter-county and intra-county levels, and to provide a source of...

Recent reports

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary deals with most of the rarities and scarce migrants reported during March. The departure of winter visitors and arrival of spring migrants in both March and April will be covered ...

News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment Conservation priorities Dr J. J. M. Flegg, Director of the British Trust for Ornithology, presents some personal, and slightly heretical, views on conservation in the current issue of Conservation Keview, the bulletin of the Society for the Promotion of N...

Notes

13 March 2014 Comments Notes Two pairs of Kestrels nesting on one electricity pylon On 15 th April 1971, in an area of reinstated opencast land at Staveley, Derbyshire, loud trilling calls drew my attention to four Kestrels Falco tinnunculus on an electricity pylon. There were two ol...

Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters Changes in Rarities Committee membership On 25 th March 1972 P. A. D. Hollom retired from the Rarities Committee. He had given it 13 years' unstinting service and had been chairman ever since it was set up in 1959; he was also the last of the founder memb...

Reviews

13 March 2014 Comments Reviews The Status of Birds in Britain and Ireland. Prepared by the British Ornithologists' Union. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1971. 333 pages; 69 line-drawings. £3.00. A Species List of British and Irish Birds. Edited by Robert Hudson. B.T.O...

Savi's Warblers breeding In Suffolk

13 March 2014 Comments Main paper From 7th June 1856, when the last recorded survivor of the breeding population was shot at Surlingham, Norfolk (Stevenson 1866), Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioiies was unknown as a British summer resident until i960 when a small population was identif...

Breeding biology of Moorhens on Huntingdonshire farm ponds

13 March 2014 Comments Main paper In the summer of 1969 the farm ponds within the parish of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, were surveyed to assess the rate at which they are disappearing. This area of approximately 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) is now mainly mixed farmland. It includes the Kimbolto...

Flight identification of European raptors

13 March 2014 Comments Main paper We now turn to the four harriers Circus, a genus associated with extensive reedbeds, cornfields and moorland, not requiring trees or cliffs as do most raptors. Three--Marsh C. aeruginosas, Hen C. cyanms and Montagu's C. pjgargus--are comparatively common,...

Recent BBRC Decisions

01 July 1997 Comments Editorials This monthly listing of the most-recent decisions by the British Birds Rarities Committee is not intended to be comprehensive or in any way to replace the annual 'Report on rare birds in Great Britain'. The records listed are mostly those of the rarest...

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

Subscribe Now