Search

News and comment

01 February 1967 Comments News and comment T h e National Cage Birds Show.--As usual, the National Cage Birds Show at London's Olympia from 8th to ioth December 1966 was dominated by canaries and budgerigars, and there seemed to be even fewer foreign species of special interest to the British fiel...

Reviews

01 February 1967 Comments Reviews In Search of Birds. By Collingwood Ingram. Witherby, London, 1966. 286 pages. 30s. This is a colourful patchwork quilt of sixty years' and a very good thirty shillings' worth of ornithological observations, experiences and ruminations, which no one with e...

Notes

01 February 1967 Comments Notes Fulmars sitting in trees.--Fulmars Fulmarus glaciatis in east Sutherland have been noted for their versatility ever since Frank Darling and Averil Morley recorded that they -were frequenting the roof of Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, in 1947 {Brit. Birds, 40: ...

Numbers of Dartford Warblers in England during 1962-66

01 February 1967 Comments Main paper (Tubbs 1963) it was shown that the Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata is subject to periodic population 'crashes' which are correlated with severe winters and normally follow a build-up in numbers over several years. Such a build-up was demonstrated for the N...

Obituary: Denzil Dean Harber (1909-1966)

01 February 1967 Comments Obituaries H A R B E R died on 31st August 1966 at the Westminster Hospital, London, after a major operation which had at first seemed successful. He was 5 7. Latterly he was known to readers oiBritishBirds chiefly as the Honorary Secretary of the Rarities Committe...

Studies of less familiar birds:142. Little Bustard

01 February 1967 Comments Main paper T H E S E S T U D I E S of a female Little Bustard Otis tetrax at the nest provide an interesting comparison with those of the female Great Bustard O. tarda by the same two photographers (Brit. Birds, 59: 22-27, frontispiece and plates 1-8). The Little Bu...

Recoveries in Great Britain and Ireland of birds ringed abroad

01 February 1967 Comments Main paper T H E YEAR 1965 produced a grand total of 721 recoveries in the British Isles of foreign-ringed birds. Five of the 71 species involved--Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus, Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis, Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, Bearded Tit Panu...

Recent reports and news

01 January 1962 Comments News and comment [These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] Our last summary reviewed the occurrences of unusual Passerines and of all American species from early August to November, against a background of the more striking movements of common land ...

Notes

01 January 1962 Comments Notes G o l d e n E a g l e a t t a c k i n g Reindeer.--With reference to the recent papers by Dr. K. Curry-Lindahl and Dr. G. Bergman on the food and feeding habits of birds of prey in Fenno-Scandia (Brit, Birds, 54: 297-306, 307-320), it may be of interest t...

Studies of less familiar birds 116. Crested Lark

01 January 1962 Comments Main paper cristatd) here, but they show the salient features very well. The species gets its name from the long upstanding crest which arises from the middle of its crown and which is conspicuous even when depressed. Many other larks have crests and inexperienced o...

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now

Search

News and comment

Reviews

Notes

Numbers of Dartford Warblers in England during 1962-66

Obituary: Denzil Dean Harber (1909-1966)

Studies of less familiar birds:142. Little Bustard

Recoveries in Great Britain and Ireland of birds ringed abroad

Recent reports and news

Notes

Studies of less familiar birds 116. Crested Lark

Sign Up to our Newsletter