Search

Recent reports

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid August to mid September 2004. Canvasback Aythya valisineria Private site (Kent), 15th August. Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca Chew Valley Lake (Somerset), 20th August to 1st September. Zino's/Fea's Petrel Pterod...

News and Comment

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Crake Crex crex is a familiar, if depressing, story. Mechanical mowing and the early harvesting of crops, before the end of the breeding season, have had a catastrophic effect on Corn Crakes in Britain and across much of western Eu...

Conservation research news

01 October 2004 Comments News and comment One of the assumptions that scientists often make about territorial birds is that individuals will choose the best breeding sites available. Consequently, when populations are small, every individual occupies a high-quality site but, as populations grow, ...

The Carl Zeiss Award 2004

01 October 2004 Comments Main paper One of the difficulties for the judging panel of the Carl Zeiss Award, for photographs of rarities assessed by the BBRC during the preceding year, is that we have to think of something new to say in our report each year. This year it was easy, in fact it ...

AudouinÕs Gull: new to Britain

01 October 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A second-summer Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii was found at Dungeness, Kent, on 5th May 2003. It lingered in the area for the remainder of the day, commuting between the shore and nearby pools on the RSPB reserve. It was present again the followi...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2002

01 October 2004 Comments Main paper This is the thirtieth annual report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, which presents details of the status of Britain's rarest breeding birds for the year 2002. The totals are generally set out by county or region, occasionally by country; most actual loc...

Requests for information

01 May 1962 Comments Editorials Wreck of Fulmars in February and March 1962.--Unusual numbers of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) were noted close inshore on various parts of the east coast during February, In some areas a high proportion were of dark or intermediate phases. During the next...

Letters

01 May 1962 Comments Letters Ringed birds in snow Sirs,--During the snowy period of early January 1962, in my garden sanctuary near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, I saw two ringed birds, a Blue Tit (Pants caerukus) and a Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus), with their rings thickly coated ...

Reviews

01 May 1962 Comments Reviews Deaths of birds and mammals from toxic chemicals, January-June 1961. T h e second report of the Joint Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on T o x i c Chemicals, i n collaboration with the Game ...

Notes

01 May 1962 Comments Notes Wilson's Phalarope in Cornwall.--Early on the morning of 15 th June 1961 J.E.B. came across an unfamiliar medium-sized wader with plain brown upper-parts and a dull white rump and tail, on Marazion Marsh, Cornwall. He contacted Dr. G. Allsop and between t...

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

Subscribe Now