News and comment

01 August 1969 Comments News and comment National farming and conservation conference It is fashionable to berate farmers for such practices as hedge removal, tree felling and the use of chemicals. Yet can a farm be managed in a way that pleases both economist and conservationist ? This was the ...
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Letters

01 August 1969 Comments Letters White-rumped Swifts in Morocco I was very interested in the recent correspondence concerning the White-rumped Swifts Apus caffer in southern Spain and particularly in P. G. C. Bmdenell-Bruce's suggestion that ornithologists visiting north-west Africa shou...
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Reviews

01 August 1969 Comments Reviews A Regional Guide to the Birds of Scotland. By W. Kenneth Richmond. Constable, London, 1968. 252 p a g e s ; frontispiece and 54 black-and-white photographic plates; 15 maps. 25s. Mr Richmond's Regional Guide will by now have been bought by many people and...
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Notes

01 August 1969 Comments Notes Overland migrations of Common Scoters The Handbook notes that Common Scoters Melanitta nigra occur on inland waters 'in small numbers irregularly but fairly often' and that such records 'are too frequent . . . during quite settled weather to be dismissed ...
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Recent reports

01 August 1969 Comments News and comment June often sees a continuation of the May pattern of southern vagrants, these occurring quite separately from arrivals of any numbers of commoner species. June 1969 was no exception, though there were rather fewer rarities of this kind than in some other ...
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Review

01 August 1939 Comments Reviews Skokholm Bird Observatory. Report for 1938. As this interesting report shows, Mr, R. M. Lockley is gradually building up at Skokholm a bird observatory which is doing valuable work. A large number of people visited the island during t h e year and helped ...
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Notes

01 August 1939 Comments Notes EASILY the outstanding ornithological event in Sussex for the year 1939 was the accomplished breeding, for the first time since about 1895, of a pair of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in a sea-cliff some miles removed from the one in which, in 1938, (?) anothe...
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