Notes

01 October 1972 Comments Notes Great Blue Herons coming on board ships in mid-Atlantic In late November 1968 reports appeared in the Bristol press that a heron had arrived at Avonmouth on a British merchantman, M.V. Pkardy, and had been taken to Rode Tropical Bird Gardens at Frome, Som...
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Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...
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Recent reports

01 December 1964 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary outlines the rarer passerines in the two months from 19th September to 19th November, thus overlapping slightly with the previous one {Brit. Birds, 57: 441-444); the more regula...
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News and comment

01 December 1964 Comments News and comment launches a major appeal.--The British Trust for Ornithology has launched an appeal aimed at raising £25,000. It is made in a brochure (splendidly designed by Robert Gillmor) which gives a concise history of the Trust and outlines its need for a sou...
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Review

01 December 1964 Comments Reviews The Black-tailed Godwit. By F. Haverschmidt. Brill, Leiden, 1963. v i i i + 1 2 0 pages; frontispiece, 17 black-and-white photographs, 1 drawing and 2 maps. N o price marked. The author intended this book for ordinary bird-lovers and general ornithologist...
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Notes

01 December 1964 Comments Notes Apparent anting by Kestrel.--On 22nd September 1962 a friend and I were driving along the main road between Port Clarence and Seaton Carew, Co. Durham, when we saw a female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus fly up from an adjacent strip of rough grassland and ali...
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