Reviews

01 March 1984
Comments Reviews Weather and Bird Behaviour. By Norman Elkins. Illustrated by Crispin Fisher. Poyser, Calton, 1983. 239 pages; 31 black-and-white plates; over 30 line-drawings. £12.60.  The subject matter of the book deals mainly with the effects of the n...
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News and comment

01 September 1974
Comments News and comment Dockland bird reserveThe Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has revealed that it has acquired, on a 21-year lease, 200 hectares of marsh to the east of Goole, Yorkshire, known as Blacktoft Sands; this land is owned by the British Transpor...
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Requests for information

01 September 1974
Comments Editorials Colour-ringed Great Black-backed GullsA three-year study of the feeding ecology of the Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus during 1974-76 includes the colour-ringing of some 3,600 nestlings at breeding colonies in Orkney with a two-colour comb...
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