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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...

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...

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...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1995

01 November 1996 Comments Main paper After another year of excellent co-operation with many people, the British Birds Rarities Committee presents a comprehensive Report. The BBRC may be perceived as isolated and remote, but it is part of a network involving individual observers, county re...

Identification of White-winged Lark

01 July 1986 Comments Main paper Few European ornithologists have had the opportunity to observe-the White-winged Lark Melanocorypha leucoptera in the field. As a resuit, the species is little known, and difficulties have occurred with the identification of vagrants in the West. On a ...

Mystery Photographs

01 July 1986 Comments Main paper Last month's mystery photograph (plate 158, repeated here) clearly showed an eagle. Although it perhaps looked like a rather short version of a White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla without the typical wedge-shaped tail of that species (note, however...

Reactions of birds to heavy rain

01 July 1986 Comments Main paper A note by myself and another by David A. Christie on the reactions of wildfowl and waders to rain and hail (Brit. Birds 77: 20-21), with a request for other observations on the subject, stimulated a further 11 notes describing the behaviour of birds in...

Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard Richardson Award'

01 July 1986 Comments Main paper It is of special note that this year, for the first time, our 'Bird Illustrator of the Year' competition is sponsored by the Natural History Book Service. This support by the NHBS is greatly welcomed. The total of 64 artists submitting entries for this...

Request

01 July 1986 Comments Editorials Bad photographs In 'Mystery photographs' we like to include good photographs of difficult specics. For our competitions at Conferences, however, and for use in our 'Monthiy marathon' competition, we need prints ofthose photographs which photographers r...

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