Announcements

01 October 1991
Comments Editorials Addition to the British and Irish List. In its forthcoming fifteenth report (Ibis in press), the BOU Records Committee will publish its recognition--following the recommendations by Bourne et al and Yesou a al. (Brit. Birds 81: 306-319; 83: 299-319)--o...
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Fieldwork action

01 October 1991
Comments Editorials BTO news. Did you know that 20% of wintering Redshanks Tringa totanus at a site on the East Lothian coast are eaten by raptors each year? Or that some birds hunt by smell? That owls can breed in baskets, and Merlins Falco columbariu...
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Editorial: Records of rare birds

01 August 1959
Comments Editorials DURING the past year or more there has been a growing realization that a large number of birds formerly thought to be rarities are reaching the British Isles regularly, and even in some numbers. In some cases a change of habit or expansion of breeding dis...
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