Recent reports

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This deals with January 1972, to which all dates refer unless otherwise stated. The only really significant weather feature in a fairly mild, wet month was a short spell of freezing north-east...
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News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment Golden Jubilee The International Council for Bird Preservation was formed in 1922, mainly through the foresight of an American, T. Gilbert Pearson, then president of what is now the National Audubon Society; the inaugural meeting was held in London on 20...
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Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
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Reviews

13 March 2014 Comments Reviews African Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins, London, 1971. 320 p a g e s ; 12 black-and-white plates. £2.25. This well-produced, smallish book covers the 89 diurnal raptors and 31 owls which inhabit Africa. The author is, of course, a well-known...
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Notes

13 March 2014 Comments Notes Shags laying two clutches Shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis have long been considered capable of producing two broods in one breeding season, but direct evidence of this is lacking (see The Handbook, vol 4; D. A. Bannerman, 1959, The Birds of the British Is...
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Recent reports

01 March 1992 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 17th January to 14th February 1992 Thes e are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Little Egret Egretta garzetla At least 40 in Britain (about 25 in Cornwall and Devon and one in Scotland), and at least t...
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News and comment

01 March 1992 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Emergency Zones in Peru. In the light of recent killings of British birdwatchers in Peru (Brit. Birds 83: 515, 567; 84: 239), it should be noted that there ar...
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Notes

01 March 1992 Comments Notes Roosting Hen Harrier killed by fox. On the morning of 14th December 1985, while collecting pellets at a communal roost site of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus on Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, I discovered a quantity of grey and white harrier f...
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Announcements

01 March 1992 Comments Editorials Books in British BirdShop. The following books have been added to the list this month: Simms: British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails. Smith: Alfred Russel Wallace.Trodd & Kramer: The Birds of Bedfordshire. For all your book orders, please use the ...
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