Recent reports

01 February 1993
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 4th-17th January 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records . Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea Filey Brigg (North Yorkshire), 13th January. Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Near Hornea...
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Request and Announcement

01 February 1993
Comments Editorials Blue Tits and flowering currants. It has been known since 1917 that Blue Tits Parus caeruleus feed on the nectar of the flowering currant Ribes sanguineum, which flowers from February to April. The tit pecks a 1-mm to 2-mm oval hole in the ba...
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News and Comment

01 February 1993
Comments News and comment A YEAR-LONG INVESTIGATION by the RSPB, the Nederlandse Vereniging tot Bescherming van Vogels (NVBV) and Tanzanian conservationists has revealed a thriving trade in protected species in Tanzania. Forged paperwork is almost the norm, many species banned ...
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Notes

01 February 1993
Comments Notes Black-headed Gulls foraging behind motor vehicle. On 18th October 1989, while returning from Hilbre Island across the sands to West Kirby, on the Wirral, Cheshire, I noticed a Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus following our Land Rover, Keeping between...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 1993
Comments Other The streaky seed-eater (Brit. Birds 85: plate 265) was named as follows: Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis (39%) Linnet Carduelis cannabina (35%) Twite Carduelis flavirostris (17%) Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus (6%) Snowfinch Montifringtlla ...
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Letters

01 February 1993
Comments Letters The Cape Clear 'Griffons' The difficulty which Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus have in maintaining flapping flight for substantial periods over the sea makes it highly improbable that the five unidentified eagle-like birds observed flying past Cape Clear ...
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Reviews

01 February 1993
Comments Reviews Grouse in Space and Time: the population biology of a managed gamebird. By Peter J. Hudson. Game Conservancy, Fordingbridge, 1992. 63 colour plates; 61 line-drawings. £25.00. Over nine million acres of upland Britain are maintained in a highly ar...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 1992
Comments Other It was a Ring-billed Gull, photographed in Lancashire in February 1991 by Malcolm Rains. Once again, all the leading competitors got the answer right, so Graham Catley, Roy Hargreaves, Hannu Jännes, Peter Lansdown, Pekka J. Nikander and Dave Nurney al...
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Reviews

01 December 1992
Comments Reviews An Atlas o f the Breeding Birds of Shropshire. Edited by Peter Deans, Jack Sankey, Leo Smith, John Tucker, Chris Whittles & Colin Wright. Shropshire Ornithological Society, Shrewsbury, 1992. 204 pages; 142 line-drawings; 140 maps. Paperback £...
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Mystery photographs

01 December 1992
Comments Main paper It is October in southwest Britain and anything can turn up. You are being bombarded by vagrants from all points of the compass when you come upon this unfamiliar bird in some poplars Populus (plate 267, repeated here in black-and-white). You real...
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