Letters

01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...
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Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 March 1986 Comments Other 'SHAG IN SUFFOLK. ON January 23rd, 1911, an immature Shag (Phalacrocorax graculus) was sent to me by post with a request to name it, and the following account of its capture:--"My son was riding his bicycle home the other evening about 7.30, and the bi...
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Recent reports

01 March 1986 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to December unless otherwise stated. Wet, cloudy, westerly weather with aboveaverage temperatures persisted throughout most of the month until 26th, ...
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Reviews

01 March 1986 Comments Reviews Log for Birdwatching. By Trevor Dolby. Charles Letts, London, 1985. 96 pages; many colour illustrations and line drawings. £2.95. One of a Letts series of pocket booklets covering various hobbies, the Log for Birdwatching illustrates and describe...
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News and Comment

01 March 1986 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Navy to the rescue. Many colonies of Gannets Sula bassana are festooned with tons of fishing-net remnants and nylon lines, and that on Les Etacs and Ortac in Alder...
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Request

01 March 1986 Comments Editorials Atlas of bird distribution in Sri Lanka Any observations of birds during the last 15 years in Sri Lanka will be welcomed for possible inclusion in a project to map the current distribution of all Sri Lankan birds. Records, which will be acknowledged, s...
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Announcements

01 March 1986 Comments Editorials Christmas Whisky Puzzle: the solution. There were 52 species in the letter block set as a puzzle on page in the December issue. The unused letters spelt out  JANUARY COVER, so the answers to the questions 'How many species are there here? And what...
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Letters

01 March 1986 Comments Letters 'Pishing' technique. For many years, I have been delighting and often surprising overseas birders visiting North America by enticing numbers of passerines and other landbirds out of dense cover and into view by 'pishing'. Although the technique varies ...
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