News and Comment

01 April 1955
Comments News and comment A new edition of the Field Guide.--Many bird-watchers find it difficult to remember the time when A. Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, by Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort and P. A. D . Hollom, was not as essential a part of their equipment...
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Reviews

01 April 1955
Comments Reviews T h e P o p u l a r H a n d b o o k of British Birds. By P . A. D . H o l l o m . 3rd (revised) edition. Witherby, L o n d o n , 1962. xxiii-f-511 p a g e s ; 151 plates. 48s. When The Popular Handbook first appeared in 1952, it made available to a far wi...
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Notes

01 April 1955
Comments Notes Ringed Plover breeding on cliff top,--In mid-June 1962 D . Carr, R, M. Lockley and I found a pair of Ringed Plovers {Charadrim hiaiicula) breeding on top of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire, within a hundred yards of the cliff edge. The site was a fairly l...
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Peregrines and homing pigeons

01 April 1955
Comments Main paper I N A L L C O U N T R I E S where there are still Peregrines {Falcoperegrinus), and where pigeon-racing is widely practised by different sections of the community, there is generally a marked antagonism between those interested in birds of prey and their ...
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Toxic chemicals and birds of prey

01 April 1955
Comments Main paper prey in the 19th and early 20th centuries, due to the increased efficiency of fire-arms, to collecting and, above all, to the spread of game preservation, was followed in the cases of most of them by a general improvement in status which lasted until abou...
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Ornithology in action

01 April 1955
Comments Main paper O N E O F T H E O U T S T A N D I N G features of British ornithology today is the continuous flow of energy from watching to systematic investigation, from investigation to settled conclusions, and from conclusions to practical action, while action in tu...
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