Recent reports

01 June 1985 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in the report refer to March unless otherwise stated. Weather and early spring migration. The month began with mild, unsettled westerly weather, becoming progre...
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News and comment

01 June 1985 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Oriental Bird Club. No less than 129 enthusiasts trekked to that infamous Eastern city, Norwich, on 23rd March, for the inaugural meeting of the Oriental Bird Club...
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Announcements

01 June 1985 Comments Editorials 'The Birdwatcher's A-Z' was named as 'The "British Birds" Best Bird Book of the Year' for 1981 (Brit. Birds 74: 411). The review in British Birds (74: 409-410) referred to it as 'a most useful addition to any birdwatcher's library'. Its price then was ...
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Letters

01 June 1985 Comments Letters Bill coloration of treecreepers. The note by Laurel Tucker (Brit. Birds 77: 263-264) questions if the upper mandible coloration could assist in the field separation of the two European treecreepers Certhia. Photographs, in Vara Figlar i Norden (1942) b...
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Reviews

01 January 1952 Comments Reviews A History of the Birds of Durham. By G. W. Temperley (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne (New Series) vol. ix, 1951). Price 15s. The County of Durham has in the past been overshadowed by its larger neighbour Northumbe...
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Notes

01 January 1952 Comments Notes Effect of a snow-storm on breeding birds.--With reference to the article on this subject (antea, vol. xliv, pp. 57-59), Mr. C. E. BruceGardyne reports that in April, 1949, he had under observation nests of a Blackbird (Turdus merula) and a Song-Thrush (T...
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