Recent Reports

01 July 1977
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers April and the first part of May and, except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to April.  Spring arrivals Until 15th, the weather was most unsuitab...
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Autumn migration summary

01 July 1977
Comments Editorials Autumn 1976 will be remembered as yet another exceptional period for rarities, probably rivalling 1975 for the number and quality of passerine vagrants. These records, however, will be dealt with in the 'Report on rare birds' for 1976, so I shall not b...
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News and Comment

01 July 1977
Comments News and comment 'Bird Photograph of the Year' Michael Wilkes, whose photograph of a Nightingale won the 1976 award (Brit. Birds 70: 133), has been kept rather busy recently. He was interviewed on 'Today' (Radio 4) on the day of the presentation by Sir Peter Scott (pla...
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Announcement

01 July 1977
Comments Editorials YOC and 'BB' We are delighted to announce the establishment of formal links between the Young Ornithologists' Club (the junior branch of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) and our journal. The work of many of the older members of th...
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Letters

01 July 1977
Comments Letters Half a pair of Black-browed Albatrosses In the course of their discussion of proof of breeding (Brit. Birds 69: 277, 457), Bruce Campbell and E. J. M. Buxton omitted to comment on one important consideration: the conservation status of potentia...
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