May report

01 September 1976
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The weather during May was generally warm with several hot spells, particularly in the second week, and was dominated by winds from a southerly quarter, which encouraged the overshooting of so...
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News and Comment

01 September 1976
Comments News and comment Endangered species The expected failure of the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Bill to become law in this Parliamentary session (Brit. Birds, 69: 156157) will allow conservationists and Government alike time to consider the reasoning behind passing...
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Report on bird ringing for 1951

01 August 1952
Comments Main paper Bird-Ringing Committee, British Trust for Ornithology. This is the fifteenth r e p o r t ! issued on behalf of the Committee, continuing; the earlier sequence under the title " T h e British Birds Marking S c h e m e . " It is in the form instituted last ...
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Notes

01 August 1952
Comments Notes Rogers informs us that on April i s t , 1950, he watched a Starling {Sturnus vulgaris) attacking a Chrysanthemum. Leaves were torn off, pecked into shreds and left on the ground, b u t were later carried off with other nesting material. Mr. R. G. Finnis r...
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Letters

01 August 1952
Comments Letters SIRS,--The Ibis for April 1953 will include a group of papers on Visible Migration (particularly in passerine birds) as observed in various countries. The newly-formed Sub-committee on Visible Migration of the British Trust for Ornithology (see below) fee...
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