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The 'British Birds' Best Bird Book of the Year

01 October 1988 Comments Main paper k>r the benefit of those who may wish to acquire (or give as a present) just one of the many bird books published each year, British Birds selects annually its choice of the 'Best Bird Book of the Year' from those reviewed in the journal during the previo...

Recent reports

01 September 1988 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 18th July-14th August 1988 Wilson's Petrel Oceanites oceanicus Beyond Cornwall, up to 16 on 'pellagic' trips. Tristram's Storm Petrel Oceanodroma tristrami Beyond Cornwall, 3rd August. Greater Sand Plover Charadrius kschenau...

Monthly reports: May reports

01 September 1988 Comments News and comment As in April, anticyclones near to Britain and Ireland resulted in mainly dry, settled weather, asfrontal systems became slow-moving and inactive. A high-pressure region over northern Europe from 6th to 16th brought easterly winds with warmer spells of wea...

News and Comment

01 September 1988 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' BPY reception This year's 'Bird Photograph of the Year' Press Reception, held in London on 9th May 1988, was hit by the perennial problem of tempting birdphotographers away fr...

Reviews

01 September 1988 Comments Reviews Where to Watch Birds in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire & Oxfordshire. By Brian Clews, Andrew Heryet and Paul Trodd. Christopher Helm, London, 1987. 316 pages; 31 line-drawings; 74 maps. Paperback £9.95.This is another book i...

Announcements

01 September 1988 Comments Editorials The Arcachon tern We understand that the French Rarities Committee is still assessing the record of the yellow-billed tern Sterna at Arcachon, France, depicted recently in British Birds (81: 217, plate 118). Our captioning of this individual as Lesser Cre...

Letters

01 September 1988 Comments Letters 'Points of view' I read with interest the recent correspondence in British Birds on 'conservation' and the extent to which this is or should be included in your journal (Brit. Birds 80: 582-583). Perhaps many of your readers may not realise that the Natio...

Notes

01 September 1988 Comments Notes Peregrines repeatedly attacking stationary Buzzard R. I. Kinley and D. B. Thexton (Brit. Birds 78: 193) recorded a pair of Peregrines Falco peregrinus persistently mobbing a Buzzard Buteo buteo and apparently striking it while in the air. On 2nd April 198...

Seventy-five years ago

01 September 1988 Comments Other 'VARIATION IN TONGUE-SPOTS OF NESTLING SKYLARK. WHEN, in 1907 (cf. Ibis, 1907, p, 574), I drew attention to the tongue-marks found in the young of certain Passerine birds, I was under the impression that the pattern of these ornamentations was always fixe...

Rarities Committee news and announcements

01 September 1988 Comments Editorials ommittee membership is listed on the inside front cover each month, and on the back of the title page. In the absence of further nominations {Brit. Birds 80: 421-423), Steve Gantlett and Rob Hume started their terms of membership on 1st April 1988, replac...

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