Expeditions

01 April 1983
Comments Main paper This is the third of these features on ornithological expeditions; our first reports appeared in April 1979 and May 1981 {Brit. Birds 72: 139-142; 74:218-223). Leaders of expeditions within the western Palearctic (and also by British and Irish ...
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Notes

01 April 1983
Comments Notes Nesting association between Little Grebes and Moorhen,  and aggression of Little Grebes On 23rd May 1979, at Tadmarton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, I found the nest of a Moorhen Gallinula chloropus containing seven eggs built over wa...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 April 1983
Comments Other 'The Little Owl (Athene noctua) cannot now be regarded as anything more than an introduced species in these islands owing to the fact that so many have been "turned down" in various parts of the country. The interest in its possible migrations to Engla...
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