Recent reports

01 January 1989
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 14th November 1988 to 2nd January 1989 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Bewick's Swan Cygnus columbianus Adult of nominate race, Durleigh Reservoir (Somerset), several dates from 27th Novemb...
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Monthly reports: September 1988

01 January 1989
Comments News and comment The month began with a spell of very unsettled westerly weather. A depression centred off the west coast of Scotland brought strong-to-gale-force northwest-to-westerly winds across Britain and Ireland, especially on 2nd. In the north of Scotland, the w...
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Recent reports: Monthly reports

01 January 1989
Comments Editorials We have been striving constantly to increase the usefulness of this popular, regular feature. With 'Recent reports' now appearing separately, and with the twitchers' grapevine now formalised, making up-to-the-minute news of rarities available to all fo...
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Recent reports and News

01 April 1959
Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Letters

01 April 1959
Comments Letters CROSSBILLS AT FAIR ISLE, 1956 SIRS,--May I point out some inaccuracies in the data concerning Crossbills (Loxia curvirostra) at Fair Isle in 1956, as given by Mr. F. R. Smith in his interesting paper "The Crossbillinvasion of 1956 and the subsequent breed...
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Reviews

01 April 1959
Comments Reviews By LILLI KOENIG. Translated from the German by MARJORIE LATZKE. W i t h a foreword by KONRAD LORENZ. (Metheum, London, 1958). 159 p a g e s ; 24 photographs and many line drawings. 18s. T H E AUTHOR of this delightful book combines a scientific attitude ...
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