Monthly marathon

01 November 1996
Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...
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Recent reports

01 November 1996
Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...
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News and comment

01 November 1996
Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...
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Looking Back

01 November 1996
Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...
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Expeditions

01 April 1983
Comments Main paper This is the third of these features on ornithological expeditions; our first reports appeared in April 1979 and May 1981 {Brit. Birds 72: 139-142; 74:218-223). Leaders of expeditions within the western Palearctic (and also by British and Irish ...
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Notes

01 April 1983
Comments Notes Nesting association between Little Grebes and Moorhen,  and aggression of Little Grebes On 23rd May 1979, at Tadmarton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, I found the nest of a Moorhen Gallinula chloropus containing seven eggs built over wa...
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