Notes

01 September 1997 Comments Notes The 'Notes' section of British Birds has a history as long as that of the journal itself, providing the opportunity for mostly amateur birdwatchers--as well as the professionals--to record their observations for posterity. For many, this will be the fi...
Read More

Mystery Photographs

01 September 1997 Comments Main paper Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria, the North American counterpart of the familiar Green Sandpiper T. ochropus, is a rare transatlantic visitor to Europe, where the majority have been in Britain & Ireland (29 individuals up to the end of 1995...
Read More

Books Received

01 May 1952 Comments Editorials Bird-watchers' Delight. By John Warham (Country Life. 18s.) The Birds of the Malav Peninsula, Singapore and Penang. By A. G. Glenister. (O.U.P. 35s.) Bird Recognition, 2. By James Fisher (Pelican Books, js. 6d.)...
Read More

Letters

01 May 1952 Comments Letters --The increasing use of various types of colour-marking for the field recognition of birds must lead to confusion between individual experiments unless an authoritative central register can be compiled. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the British Tru...
Read More

Reviews

01 May 1952 Comments Reviews The Study of Instinct. By N. Tinbergen. (Oxford U.P., 1951. 25s.). Field observers have long felt the need of an authoritative, condensed summing up of the vast but fragmentary and often contradictory mass of fact and theory which has been accumulating ab...
Read More

The nesting of a pair of Blue Tits

01 May 1952 Comments Main paper 1951 we were able to study a pair of Blue Tits (Parus aeruleus) nesting in a garden at Wilnecote, north Warwickshire, and the following are some of the more outstanding observations. Both birds had been trapped and colour-ringed in the winter. They were t...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now