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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...

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...

Notes to the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper DURING THE SUMMER of 1956 we visited the north-east of Iceland for the purpose of studying and filming; the breeding of the Iceland Gyr Falcon (Falco rusticolus islandus). The expedition was in the Myvatn area from 9th to 21st J u n e . W e wish to record...

Recent reports and news

01 August 1958 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...

Reviews

01 August 1958 Comments Reviews By D. A. BANNERMAN. Illustrated by G. E. Lodge. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh), Vol. VI (I957)= 3 2 Â° pages; 26 colour plates. Vol. VII (1958): 256 pages; 27 colour plates. ^ 3 3s. each. THE SIXTH VOLUME describes the storks, herons, Flamingo, swans, ge...

Notes

01 August 1958 Comments Notes Eider's method of eating crabs.--On 16th December 1957 and subsequent days I had several first-winter Eiders (Somateria mollissima) under observation from the pier at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. They were seen diving from a range of a few yards and on returni...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCI. Bridled Tern

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper (Plates 45-48) T H E BRIDLED, Brown-winged or Panayan Tern (Sterna anaethetus), widely distributed in tropical and sub-tropical seas, has been recorded only three times in the British Isles. All were beach-drifted birds--one each at Dungeness, Kent, on 19...

Late season singing of the Yellowhammer

01 August 1958 Comments Main paper August showed that the birds were giving relatively large song totals. T h e maximum recorded from one bird w a s 3,482 songs in one day. Apart from August being a month when very few other species in Britain sing persistently, this can be regarded as ver...

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