Notes

01 June 2007 Comments Notes Slavonian Grebe breeding with Great Crested Grebe Puffin with exceptionally heavy tick infestation Eurasian Sparrowhawk attacking Soprano Pipistrelle bat Reed Warbler apparently using willow-bark pieces in nest construction ...
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Recent Reports

01 September 1991 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 12th July to 15th August 1991 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Gosford Bay, 31st July, and Aberlady Bay (both Lothian), sporadically, 4th-14th August. Little...
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Monthly marathon

01 September 1991 Comments Other A nice easy one for a change' That, we suspect, is what many contestants thought as they hastily wrote 'Shore Lark' on their postcards. The votes were as follows: Shore Lark Eremophila alpestris (50%) Temminck's Horned Lark E. bilopha (50%)The entrants...
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News and Comment

01 September 1991 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Definitely a record After an astonishing total of 37 years, Mrs N. D. Blamire will no longer be compiling the annual index of British Birds. Diana started way back...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 September 1991 Comments Other 'A PAIR of Hobbies (Falco s. subbuteo) nested and reared a brood of young in a wood not far from Leicester in the summer of 1915. I saw both parents as well as the young. The female was unfortunately shot in August 1915, and came into my possession in ...
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Announcements

01 September 1991 Comments Editorials Rare Breeding Birds Panel. The work of the Panel has been supported since its inception in 1973 by British Birds, the BTO, the NCC and the RSPB. In April 1991, however, the NCC ceased to exist, its functions being taken over by three separate bodies: E...
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Letters

01 September 1991 Comments Letters Roosting behaviour of seabirds. It is human nature to avoid raising even obvious questions when no answer appears to be in sight. I nevertheless raise such a question here. Birds of the open ocean, far from land, must not only roost but also sleep on t...
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