Recent reports

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This deals with January 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The only really significant weather feature in a fairly mild, wet month was a short spell of freezing north-east...
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News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment Golden Jubilee The International Council for Bird Preservation was formed in 1922, mainly through the foresight of an American, T. Gilbert Pearson, then president of what is now the National Audubon Society; the inaugural meeting was held in London on 20...
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Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
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Reviews

13 March 2014 Comments Reviews African Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins, London, 1971. 320 p a g e s ; 12 black-and-white plates. £2.25. This well-produced, smallish book covers the 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls which inhabit Africa. The author is, of course, a well-known...
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Notes

13 March 2014 Comments Notes Shags laying two clutches Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis have long been considered capable of producing two broods in one breeding season, but direct evidence of this is lacking (see The Handbook, vol 4; D. A. Bannerman, 1959, The Birds of the British Is...
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Recent reports

01 November 1993 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 13th September to 17th October 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. SemipaJmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus First-winter plover showing some diagnostic features of this species at Bally...
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Monthly marathon

01 November 1993 Comments Other No trap, it was a Little Gull, photographed by Axel Halley in Germany in October 1988 (SCORE 6). The first person to achieve a score of 500 will win a birding trip with SUNBIRD to Africa, Asia or North America.223. Sixth 'Monthly marathon', using new r...
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News and Comment

01 November 1993 Comments News and comment NOT ALL THAT LONG AGO, criticism of the Forestry Commission was almost a daily event. The design and, very often, the location of commercial plantations seemed to work against the best interests of birds and other wildlife, and various aspects of fores...
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Mystery photographs

01 November 1993 Comments Main paper The fairly long neck, pot belly, short and slightly decurved bill, and scaly upperparts readily suggest that our mystery bird (plate 217 on page 566) is a Calidris wader, or perhaps a Ruff Philomachus pugnax. Discerning the size of a lone wader in the ...
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