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The 'British Birds' Best Bird Book of the Year

01 October 1989 Comments Main paper For the benefit of those who may wish to acquire (or give as a present) just one of the many bird books published each year, British Birds selects annually its choice of the 'Best Bird Book of the Year' from those reviewed in the journal during th...

Announcements

01 October 1989 Comments Editorials New books in British BirdShop. This month's British BirdShop includes nine new books and SPECIAL OFFERS concerning five books. Please consult the forms (pages xvii & xviii) for full details, and look especially at the items marked by...

Letters

01 October 1989 Comments Letters Identification of Pechora Pipit. The excellent paper on 'Field identification of Pechora Pipit' Anthus gustavi (Brit. Birds 81: 452-463), by C. D. R. Heard and G. Walbridge, has clarified the field characters of a potentially confusing species. It...

Notes

01 October 1989 Comments Notes Male King Eider displaying to Eiders. The note on a male Red-breasted Merganser Mergus senator displaying to a party of Goosanders M. merganser (Brit. Birds 79: 89) prompts the following. In the evening of 23rd May 1986, while watching 200-300 Eid...

Little Bitterns breeding in South Yorkshire

01 October 1989 Comments Main paper The Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus occurs in Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. It is a summer visitor to Europe, where it breeds locally throughout central, southern and eastern Europe, but is absent from Scandinavia and Britain and Ireland (Cramp...

Conservation

01 October 1989 Comments Main paper I have always understood that care of the environment is an integral part of being a socialist. There is plenty of evidence to sustain the view. In 1884, the great socialist visionary William Morris told a lecture audience:'I feel sure that the time wi...

The Democrats, conservation and British birds

01 October 1989 Comments Main paper The Social and Liberal Democrats have already put the green agenda right at the top of our priorities. And we intend to make sure that conservation, and the future of British birds, are part of that agenda. Whether one is talking about resident species...

Editorial

01 October 1989 Comments Editorials In recent months, everyone concerned with the environment, conservation or natural history will have been encouraged by the increasing emphasis being given to these matters by politicians, as well as by 'the media'. Thus, events have made our invitatio...

Seventy-five years ago...

01 October 1989 Comments Other 'INCREASE AND DECREASE IN SUMMER RESIDENTS. REPORT ON THE 1913 INQUIRY. RED-BACKED SHRIKE . . . there can be no reasonable doubt that it is decreasing . . . THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER . . . appears to be holding its own almost everywhere . . . THE ...

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