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Bird photograph of the year

01 July 1994 Comments Main paper Take the best work of 1993 by the cream of Europe's bird-photographers, and you are sure to enjoy the show: but judging the best of the best becomes extraordinarily difficult. Such was the pleasure and the pain faced by photographic consultant, Don Smi...

European news

01 July 1994 Comments Main paper This regular six-monthly feature summarises information for the whole of Europe (and some adjacent parts of the Western Palearctic) and has officially been adopted by the Association of European Rarities Committees for publication of compilations of ma...

Ancient Murrelet in Devon: new to the western Palearctic

01 July 1994 Comments Main paper While Fair Isle or the Isles of Scilly in autumn are undeniably exciting, gross rarities sometimes appear at the least expected times and in the most unlikely places and are all the more memorable for that. The RSPB South West office organised a trip t...

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 Not only has the specific name kuhlii been replaced by diomedea, in accordance with the rale of priorit...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...

Influx of Great Shearwaters in autumn 1965

01 April 1968 Comments Main paper From August to October 1965 unprecedented concentrations of Great Shearwaters Puffinus gravis, with smaller numbers of Cory's Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea, were recorded off the western and northern coasts of Britain and Ireland. There was also an ...

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