Report on bird-ringing for 1969

01 April 1971 Comments Main paper Although scarcely a year has passed without the introduction of some new feature or embellishment, the basic composition of the 'Report on bird-ringing' has remained unchanged for about 15 years. It has indeed grown in size from some 36 to 48 or more page...
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News and comment

01 April 1971 Comments News and comment enquiries into churchyard birds . . . Churchyards are small in extent, but there are many of them and they are widely dispersed. They constitute a distinctive type of habitat, being islands of well-spaced trees and shrubs (mainly coniferous) that general...
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Letters

01 April 1971 Comments Letters Further notes on Nutcracker In 1968 and 1969 In my paper on the invasion of Nutcrackers Nmfrttga catyecatactes in autumn 1968 (Brit. Birds, 63: $53-373), I inadvertently omitted a reference to Norway from the brief national summaries of the situation in c...
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Notes

01 April 1971 Comments Notes Common Sandpiper eating apple On 20th June 1970 I was sitting in a car by a small loch in Ross-shire when two Common Sandpipers Tringa hypoltmos came foraging close. One of them discovered a portion of apple and, one by one, broke off and swallowed severa...
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Recent reports

01 October 1970 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report summarises the records for September 1970 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. While an anticyclone persisted over the Azores until 17th, a series of depres...
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News and Comment

01 October 1970 Comments News and comment Annual Conference The Annual Conference of the British Trust for Ornithology was held at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 4th to 6th December 1970, and the wide range of subjects discussed demonstrated the many-sided outlook of the...
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