Recent reports

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The previous summary {Brit. Birds, 65: 267-268) covered most of the rarities and scarce migrants in March. Here we deal with the departure of certain winter visitors and the arrival of spring ...
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News and comment

13 March 2014
Comments News and comment Wildfowl Trust expansion The Wildfowl Trust has announced plans for a major refuge and waterfowl collection in Lancashire. The chosen site is that of the former Martin Mere, between Southport and Burscough Bridge, which was drained for agriculture in the ...
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Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters Danish White Storks in south-west England I was very interested in J. B. Bottomley's article on the wanderings of three young White Storks Ciconia ciconia from FrØstrup, Denmark, in September 1971 (Brit. Birds, 65: 4-5, plates 1-3). During the summ...
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Notes

13 March 2014
Comments Notes Moorhen completely submerging for more than a minute On 16 th January 1972 James Parkin and I were walking along the bank of the River Eden near Musgrave, Westmorland, when we saw a Moorhen Gallinula chloropus disappear into a pool about 2 5 metres away. ...
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Recent reports

01 May 1996
Comments News and comment White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Blyth Estuary (Northumberland), 20th March to 8th April. Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis Tittenhanger Gravel-pits (Hertfordshire), 7th-llth April. Briinnich's Guillemot Uria lomvia Ardnamurchan Peninsula (Highland), 27th Ma...
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News and comment

01 May 1996
Comments News and comment Whatever your views may be on the ethics of releasing birds for shooting, it is an extremely widespread practice that has implications for the avifauna of widely dispersed geographical areas. We have heard it claimed that, with the UK population of Gre...
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Letters

01 May 1996
Comments Letters In October 'News and comment' (Brit. Birds 88: 489), Shelley Hinsley's letter in the New Scientist about feeding peanuts in the summer was quoted. Readers may feel that this reference indicated the wholesale death of nestling tits Parus nationwide thro...
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