May report

01 September 1976 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during May was generally warm with several hot spells, particularly in the second week, and was dominated by winds from a southerly quarter, which encouraged the overshooting of so...
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News and Comment

01 September 1976 Comments News and comment Endangered species The expected failure of the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Bill to become law in this Parliamentary session (Brit. Birds, 69: 156157) will allow conservationists and Government alike time to consider the reasoning behind passing...
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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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Notices and requests

01 April 1955 Comments Editorials New Ornithological Appointments.--With the aid of a grant from the Nature Conservancy the Wildfowl Trust have appointed Dr. G. V. T. Matthews as Assistant Director (Research) from ist May 1955. Dr. Matthews has hitherto been' working at Cambridge on probl...
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