Letters

01 August 1980
Comments Letters Importance of Ireland's Brent Geese In his account of 'Ireland's winter visitors and passage migrants', C. D. Hutchinson (Brit. Birds 73: 72-80) noted that the Brent Goose Branta bernicla is now the most numerous goose in Ireland and concluded ...
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Letters

01 February 1977
Comments Letters Photographic quality and usefulness While browsing through a dozen recent volumes of the Swedish journal Vår Fågelvårld, I was impressed by the high proportion of photographs depicting birds in flight, even though not all of them were of very good q...
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Notes

01 September 1944
Comments Notes As already reported in Brit. Birds (antea, Vols, xxxiii, p. 194, xxxv, p. 58, xxxvi, p. 143), a female Carrion Crow (Corvus c. corone) and a male Hooded Crow (Corvus c. comix) interbred in a wood in south Co. Dublin in 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942. In 1943 ...
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Notes

01 February 1941
Comments Notes THESE notes cover the periods between May and September, 1939, and May to July, 1940, and are in continuation of those published in Vol. XXXII, pp. 366-8. BRITISH GOLDFINCH (Carduelisc. britannica).--It is pleasing to be able to record the continued incr...
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