Recent reports

01 January 2010
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early November to early December 2009. Headlines During a very stormy period, it was birds at sea that caught the eye most, with the best being a Fregetta storm-petrel in the Severn estuary, a Pacific Diver nearby...
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Reviews

01 January 2010
Comments Reviews By Paul Mason and Jake Allsop Poyser, 2009 Hbk, 280pp, many photographs, vignettes and tables ISBN 978-0-7136-7683-9 Subbuteo code M20081 £45.00 BB Bookshop price £36.00 This is the latest in the long-running and gener- ally excellent series ...
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Letters

01 January 2010
Comments Letters In 2007, I was surprised to read (in Flood & Thomas 2007, p. 418) that I had seen a dark- rumped Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus near South Georgia, when what I saw was a bird with markings resembling those of Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma le...
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Personalities. 30. R. A. Hume

01 May 1983
Comments Main paper Rob Hume, expert on gulls and terns, wildlife artist, formerly co-editor of the greatly acclaimed West Midland Bird Club annual report and more recently co-compiler of the British Birds feature 'Recent reports' (largely unchecked!), is well known to bi...
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Territorial behaviour of Kestrels

01 May 1983
Comments Main paper Birds of prey exhibit a wide range of dispersion patterns, determined in part by their response to varying prey availability (Newton 1979). The Kestrel Falco tinnunculus has been recorded nesting colonially (Fennel 1954), or solitarily, with pairs defe...
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