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 January 1995 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 14th November 1994 to 2nd January 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-throated Diver Gavia arctica Very high numbers for Ireland: minimum ...
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Monthly marathon

01 January 1995 Comments Other Most competitors correctly identified the bird in the seventh photograph in the current Marathon (Brit. Birds 87: plate 126) as an adult male Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope (75%). It was photographed in China in May 1993 by D. C. Jardine. Other ...
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News and comment

01 January 1995 Comments News and comment With local government reorganisation in the offing, local, county and regional bird clubs and societies again face the prospect of changes, both minor and major. Every biological group, from fungi, mosses and higher plants to snails, woodlice and mamma...
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Announcements

01 January 1995 Comments Editorials Entrants should read the rules carefully (see Brit. Birds 84: 36, or write for a copy). The prizes in 1995 will be as follows: FIRST PRIZE Canon EOS 500 SLR camera with 35-80 zoom lens (RRP £400); SECOND PRIZE Canon Sureshot Z115 compact 35-mm ca...
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