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The birdwatching year 2000

01 December 2001 Comments Main paper This report summarises the major bird movements and influxes of the year 2000, as well as including the rarity highlights. Unless stated otherwise, all the rarity records noted here have been accepted by the British Birds Rarities Committee (see Brit. ...

Sabine's Gulls in western France and southern Britain

01 September 1998 Comments Main paper Meteorological factors determining the arrival of Sabine's Gulls Larus sabini in western France and southern Britain are described. The largest coastal and inland concentrations are associated with very deep depressions moving across or to the north of...

Eastern vagrants in Britain in autumn 1988

01 October 1991 Comments Main paper The autumn of 1988 was remarkable for the arrival of eastern Palearctic vagrant passerines in Britain (Rogers et al. 1989), and second only to 1982 in numbers (see Howey & Bell 1985). Of those central Asian passerines whose breeding range is no clo...

The Crag Martin in winter quarters at Gibraltar

01 September 1974 Comments Main paper The Crag Martin Hirundo rupestris is a southern Palearctic species which is generally sedentary, occasionally wandering a little in winter; it is more migratory in the northern parts of its range (Cramp 1970). In Europe it breeds from Iberia through so...

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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