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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Reviews

01 May 1975
Comments Reviews Birds of Prey in Europe. By Maarten Bijleveld. Macmillan, London, 1974. 263 pages; two black-and-white plates; five figures. £12.50. The bare bones of this grim tale can be exposed in a few words. In the estimation of Professor Dr. K. H. Voous...
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Notes

01 May 1975
Comments Notes 'Freezing' behaviour of Pheasants on tree branches At 15.00 hours on 19th February 1972, in Hetchell Wood, north-east of Leeds, West Yorkshire, we found an old hawthorn Crataegus monogyna covered with droppings, with more droppings on the ground below, su...
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