Recent reports

01 October 1993 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 16th August to 12th September 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records   White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla Navax Point (Cornwall), 11th September. Oriental Pratincole Glareola ma...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 October 1993 Comments Other On 12th October 1968, Britain's first-ever Blackpoll Warbler Dendroica striata was found near the Post Office on St Agnes, Isles of Stilly, and ten days later, on 22nd October, a second was mistnetted, in Nant withy-bed on Bardsey Island (Brit. Birds 6...
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News and Comment

01 October 1993 Comments News and comment OVER the last 100 years or so, 90% of the Tees Estuary (Cleveland) has been lost to land claim--the more accurate way to describe what is generally (and wrongly) called 'reclamation'. Between the 1960s and 1970s, over 80% of what remained of Seal Sands...
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Review

01 October 1993 Comments Reviews Bird Census Techniques. By Colin J. Bibby, Neil D. Burgess & David Hill. Academic Press, London, 1992. 257 pages; numerous figs. ISBN 0-12-095830-9. £19.50. This book aims to be a practical manual for those engaged in collecting data on bird ...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 1993 Comments Other Grey-cheeked Thrush Cathams minimus (56%), Hermit Thrush C. guttatus (27%), Swainson's Thrush C. ustulatus (9%), Veery C. fuscescens (6%), Dark-throated Thrush Turdus ruficollis (1%) and White's Thrush Zoothera dauma (1%).It was a Grey-cheeked Thrush, ...
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Announcements

01 October 1993 Comments Editorials ' BB' trips in 1994. If you're so inclined, you can join a birding holiday, with fellow BB readers and a professional Sunbird leader, to Thailand (February-March), Slovakia (April-May), Finland (May) or the Volga Delta (August). You could also pencil i...
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Letters

01 October 1993 Comments Letters Identification of Tennessee Warbler. One glance at the coloured photograph of a Tennessee Warbler Vermivora peregrina [Brit. Birds 85: plate 267) solved a problem of ten years' standing for me, though the issue was not discussed by Dr Colin Bradsh...
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Letter

01 May 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--One of our most important bird-reserves, Havergate Island, Suffolk, was severely damaged by the exceptional tide which swept down the East Anglian coast on February 1st. This island is not only unique in t h a t it contains the only British breedin...
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Review

01 May 1953 Comments Reviews KKVIKW : COUNTY BIKD KEI>OKT. North Staffordshire Field Club, Annual Report, 1951-52. Edited by H. V. Thompson. A short report on birds includes notes on duck on Copmere in 1951. Goosanders were present in some numbers from January to March and from Novem...
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