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 May 1978 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers February; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. The first week stayed fairly mild, but on 8th very cold continental polar air arrived from the eas...
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News and Comment

01 May 1978 Comments News and comment An enormous Atlas Think of some 3 million square miles, habitats as diverse as tropical forest and true desert, with all sorts of stages between; then think about 720 species of birds, many of them rare and some of them almost unknown; and then...
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Announcements

01 May 1978 Comments Editorials 'The "British Birds" List of Birds of the Western Palearctic' Established subscribers received their free copy of this list with either the March or April issue of British Birds. New subscribers should claim their copy by sending their latest a...
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Letters

01 May 1978 Comments Letters Field identification of Black-throated Diver in winter Mystery photograph 14 (Brit. Birds 71: 34) was very interesting and instructive. It illustrated clearly the distinctive white thigh patch of Black-throated Diver Gavia arctica, which I have...
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