Recent reports

01 May 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records February 1973 was a mild, relatively dry month. There was a distinct change in the weather around 11th-12th when north-westerly winds brought snow over much of Britain. From about 16th to 1...
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News and comment

01 May 1973 Comments News and comment Restricting trade in endangered species One of the hazards threatening scarce animal and plant species has been the international, and usually commercial, trade in live specimens and in products from dead ones, such as skins and pelts. In an en...
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Letters

01 May 1973 Comments Letters The Moorhen's ability to remain submerged A recent note by R. W. Robson (Brit. Birds, 65: 299-300) and the appended editorial comment suggest that it is unusual for Moorhens Gallinula chloropus to submerge for long periods of time, especially w...
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Reviews

01 May 1973 Comments Reviews Waders in New Zealand. By Elaine Power. Collins, Auckland and London, 1972. 21 plates, with two-page key. £1.75. This book is the second in a series intended to present pleasant collections of bird portraits, so prompting a wider interest in t...
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Notes

01 May 1973 Comments Notes Little Grebe eating bread On 7th October 1972, in Dunham Park, Cheshire, I was watching three Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis, two adults and a juvenile, feeding on a pond at the side of a public footpath. There were also about 20 tame Mal...
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The threat postures of the Robin

01 May 1973 Comments Main paper In 1968 I had the opportunity of observing the behaviour of some Robins Erithacus rubecula which had been hand-reared after accidents had destroyed their nests. The behaviour of two young that had been reared together appeared quite normal, but in one ...
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Notes

01 April 1946 Comments Notes IN the autumn of 1945 I have noticed Jackdaws (Corvus monedula spermologus) frequenting two holes in different beeches close together, at Westerham, Kent, but have been unable to prove definitely that they were breeding. A Jackdaw was seen to leave one h...
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Notes on the food of the Kestrel

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper THE following information has been gathered as the result of analyses of 206 pellets of the Kestrel (Fako t. timmnculus) collected at regular intervals between July 1st, 1944, and March 24th, 1945, from a roost in an old shed and are believed, from feathe...
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