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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News and comment

01 August 1969
Comments News and comment National farming and conservation conference It is fashionable to berate farmers for such practices as hedge removal, tree felling and the use of chemicals. Yet can a farm be managed in a way that pleases both economist and conservationist ? This was the ...
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Letters

01 August 1969
Comments Letters White-rumped Swifts in Morocco I was very interested in the recent correspondence concerning the White-rumped Swifts Apus caffer in southern Spain and particularly in P. G. C. Bmdenell-Bruce's suggestion that ornithologists visiting north-west Africa shou...
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Reviews

01 August 1969
Comments Reviews A Regional Guide to the Birds of Scotland. By W. Kenneth Richmond. Constable, London, 1968. 252 p a g e s ; frontispiece and 54 black-and-white photographic plates; 15 maps. 25s. Mr Richmond's Regional Guide will by now have been bought by many people and...
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Notes

01 August 1969
Comments Notes Overland migrations of Common Scoters The Handbook notes that Common Scoters Melanitta nigra occur on inland waters 'in small numbers irregularly but fairly often' and that such records 'are too frequent . . . during quite settled weather to be dismissed ...
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