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 December 1976 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers September and the first part of October. Except when otherwise stated, all dates refer to September. SEABIRDS The large numbers of shearwaters present off...
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Spring summary

01 December 1976 Comments News and comment We received little information on sea-passage from coastal stations, but the following movements may be of interest. At Portland a total of 3,194 Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus passed between 2nd and 12th May. Figures for Common Scoters Melanitta n...
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News and Comment

01 December 1976 Comments News and comment Skokholm Bird Observatory to close The sad news has reached me that Skokholm Bird Observatory, Dyfed, is to close. The observatory was the first to be established in Britain, in 1937, by R. M. Lockley, whose work on the Manx Shearwater was one ...
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Request for assistance

01 December 1976 Comments Editorials Bird Photograph o ftheYear  Readers are reminded that the closing date for receipt of entries for this competition (black-and-white prints or colour transparencies) is 5th January 1977. Interest and originality, as well as technical excell...
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