Notes

01 September 1997 Comments Notes The 'Notes' section of British Birds has a history as long as that of the journal itself, providing the opportunity for mostly amateur birdwatchers--as well as the professionals--to record their observations for posterity. For many, this will be the fi...
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Mystery Photographs

01 September 1997 Comments Main paper Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria, the North American counterpart of the familiar Green Sandpiper T. ochropus, is a rare transatlantic visitor to Europe, where the majority have been in Britain & Ireland (29 individuals up to the end of 1995...
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News and comment

01 April 1967 Comments News and comment Army Bird-watching Society.--Of the bird-watching societies run by the three armed services, that of the Army is perhaps the least well known. Its main aims are to promote and encourage bird-watching in the service and to co-operate with other ornithologi...
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Requests for information

01 April 1967 Comments Editorials Irish Peregrine Survey.--The Irish Society for the Protection of Birds is organising a survey of Peregrines Falco peregrinus in the Republic of Ireland in 1967. The main objects are to arrive at an accurate estimate of the number of nesting pairs and, if ...
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Letters

01 April 1967 Comments Letters Eruptions of Great Tits and other species Sirs,--I was interested in Dr. C. M. Perrins's paper on the effect of the seed crop of the beech Fagus sylvatka on the populations and movements of the Great Tit Partis major (Brit, Birds, 59: 419-432). To strengt...
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Reviews

01 April 1967 Comments Reviews The Snow Bunting. By Desmond Nethersole-Thompson. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1966. 316 pages; 1 coloured and 18 blackand-white photographs; 11 text figures. 45s. A most arduous scientific project has at last come to fruition in this book. The challenge of ...
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Notes

01 April 1967 Comments Notes Sand Martins feeding from the ground.--With reference to the notes by Mrs. E. M. Trevor and P. J. Oliver on House Martins Delichon urbica and Sand Martins Riparia riparia apparently feeding from the ground (Brit. Birds, 58: 511; 59: 499), the following ma...
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