Reviews

01 November 2008
Comments Reviews PETRELS NIGHT AND DAY By Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney and The Sound Approach. The Sound Approach, Poole, Dorset, 2008. 300 pages, 17 full-page colour plates; many colour photographs; and sonograms of most of the 127 sound recordings presented on two ...
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Letter

01 November 2008
Comments Letters The excellent and informative paper by Heaney et al. (2008) stated that `The [Isles of Scilly] Puffin Fratercula arctica population is of great regional importance and, along with colonies in the Channel Islands and Co. Kerry, marks the southwestern li...
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Conservation research news

01 November 2008
Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra in recent decades, estimated at 86% between 1967 and 2005, has been among the most dramatic of any species in the UK. A similar pattern of decline, including range contraction and local extinct...
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Reviews

01 September 1969
Comments Reviews Handbuch der Vogel Mitteleuropas. Vols 2 and 3. Anseriformes. Edited by K. M. Bauer and U. N. Glutz von Blotzheim. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main. Vol 2 (1968): 535 P a g es > 5 colour plates; 76 text-figures and maps. Vol 5 (1969): 50...
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Notes

01 September 1969
Comments Notes Fish jumping into Heron's mouth On 16th August 1969, at Talybont Reservoir, Breconshire, we saw a Heron Ardea cinerea standing on the edge of a small concrete 'waterfall' about two feet high; it was leaning forward in such a manner that its open bill was ...
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