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Product Reports

01 April 1984 Comments Main paper Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditio...

Mystery Photographs

01 April 1984 Comments Main paper Last month's mystery photograph (plate 37, repeated here) should have proved to be a real teaser lor the majority of readers. Since size, at sea, is always difficult to judge, it is useful to have an albatross so nicely positioned in the background. Ou...

Photospot. 1. Sooty Gull and White-eyed Gull

01 April 1984 Comments Main paper Bird-photographers have generously given (or loaned) to British Birds many of their best photographic prints or transparencies. We make use of these whenever appropriate: in annual selections ('Best recent black-and-white bird-photographs' and 'Bird Ph...

The Influence of Watercourse Management on Moorhen Breeding Biology

01 April 1984 Comments Main paper he Moorhen Gallinula chloropus is a common breeding bird on inland waters in Britain. Moorhen breeding habitat along many lowland rivers and canals is subject to periodic reduction or alteration by watercourse management, such as river dredging and ban...

Identification of Slender-billed Curlew

01 April 1984 Comments Main paper Like all eight species of curlew Numenius, the Slender-billed Curlew N. tenuirostris breeds only in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere and is a strong migrant. The smaller members of the genus penetrate as far as the tips of the souther...

Scarlet Rosefinch Breeding in Scotland

01 April 1984 Comments Main paper At 04.00 GMT on 4th June 1982, I was walking through an area of open birch scrub in the Highland Region of Scotland, when my attention was suddenly attracted by the distinctive song of a Scarlet Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus. As the light was extreme...

Wigeon X Chiloe Wigeon hybrid resembling American Wigeon

01 April 1968 Comments Main paper It has been established that some interspecific hybrids among ducks and geese (Anatidae) strongly resemble one parent or even another species altogether, thus causing problems in field-identification. An extreme case in Britain is the hybrid Pochard Ay...

Studies of less familiar birds: 147. Cory's Shearwater

01 April 1968 Comments Main paper Various changes have been made in the scientific nomenclature of Cory's Shearwater since the publication of The Handbook of British Birds (1938-41). Not only has the specific name kuhlii been replaced by diomedea, in accordance with the rale of priorit...

Little Swift in Co. Cork

01 April 1968 Comments Main paper On the evening of 12th June 1967, on Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, I was sitting on top of a steep ridge overlooking Cummer, a narrow col situated between the north and south harbours. The soft evening light was directly behind me and it was perfectly c...

Obituary: William Maitland Congreve, MC(1883-1967)

01 April 1968 Comments Main paper Major W. M. Congreve died in his sleep at his home in Bradford-onAvon, Wiltshire, on 31 st December 1967, All who met 'Mait' Congreve in later life will recall with admiration his determined efforts to overcome his handicap of an advancing and cripplin...

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