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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2007

01 October 2008 Comments Main paper This is the fiftieth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee. This is not an insignificant milestone and, as last year's introduction alluded, there are a number of changes in personnel responsible for the production of this report. After... Read More

Letter

01 December 1942 Comments Letters SIRS,--The interesting and unusual behavtour of a Moorhen (Galhnula ch, chloropus) continually remaining in a semi-submerged position (antea, Vol. xxxvi, p. 57) whilst swimming about, and giving the impression of " not being able to come up " is almost ce... Read More

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper IN England a hundred years ago the Black Redstart (Phcenicurus o. gibraltariensis) was only a rare and occasional visitor, but by 1871 Newton in Yarrell was able to give it as a regulär winter visitor to south-west England and the Isle of Wight, less r... Read More

Reviews

01 November 1942 Comments Reviews An Ornithologist's Field Note Book. By Sir Hugh Gladstone. 6th Edition revised. (Truslove & Hanson). 6d. T H I S booklet (5 x 3 ins.) contains a list of the English names of all the regulär breeding British birds, winter visitors and passage-migrants. ... Read More