Mystery photographs

01 July 1978
Comments Main paper Last month's mystery bird should have presented few problems: there was a simple choice between Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula and Little Ringed Plover C. dubius. The main characteristics of the Ringed Plover are a broad white wing-stripe...
Read More

Breeding Bitterns in Britain

01 July 1978
Comments Main paper The Bittern Botaurus stellaris was the first of six former breeding birds to recolonise Britain this century, preceding the next, the Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, by 35 years. This paper draws together for the first time the rather scattered referenc...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now