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Waders with non-breeding plumage in the breeding season

01 January 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Why do some waders not acquire breeding plumage, but apparently retain non-breeding plumage during the breeding season? With some wader species it is usual for a significant proportion, or even most of the population, not to breed in their fir...

The new breeding bird Survey

01 January 1994 Comments Main paper How are the numbers of British nesting birds changing? Where should we look for the reasons for upward or downward population trends? Is there anything we can do to influence those trends? Every birdwatcher should be aware that these are vitally import...

Identification, habits and status of Great Knot

01 March 1986 Comments Main paper Among Arctic waders, the Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris is surely one of the least known and most obscure. It is very surprising that this can be said of a member of the well-studied and popular genus Calidris, especially one of conspicuously large s...

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...

Black Redstarts in England in the Summer of 1942

01 December 1942 Comments Main paper IN England a hundred years ago the Black Redstart (Phcenicurus o. gibraltariensis) was only a rare and occasional visitor, but by 1871 Newton in Yarrell was able to give it as a regulÃ¤r winter visitor to south-west England and the Isle of Wight, less r...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad Addenda V1. Omitting records of British-bred birds

01 August 1939 Comments Main paper LEACH, HITHERTO in this series of articles we have thought it best to collect together all records of ringed birds, which have moved either from this country to abroad or from abroad to this country. This has meant a certain amount of duplication as the ...

Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad

01 September 1934 Comments Main paper Only in the last few years have we obtained records to show the origin of our winter immigrant Rooks, but the information is now gradually accumulating. So far we have no ringing record of a British-bred Rook migrating oversea.*For previous parts see Vol....

Obituary: Ernst Johann Otto Hartert. 1859-1933

01 January 1934 Comments Obituaries I T was with deep regret that we briefly announced in our last number the death of Dr. Hartert in Berlin. This took place on the n t h (not the ioth as stated) of November, 1933, after an illness of less than three days. Ernst Johann Otto Hartert, to giv...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad. Addenda II

01 May 1933 Comments Main paper This is a continuation of our series of articles under this heading in Volume XXV.*, and contains all the records which have come under our notice since then, and of which we have been able to obtain details. We have again to express our great indebtednes...

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