Recent reports

01 February 1995
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 3rd-15th January 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Two long-stayers, on Tresco (Scilly) and North Slob (...
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Reviews

01 February 1995
Comments Reviews In Search of the Cirl Bunting, by Andrew Cole, Devon. 1993. 127 pages; 26 colour plates; 20 black-and-white plates; 10 distribution maps; 4 line drawings; 10 tables; 3 graphs. ISBN O 9521242 0 3. £25.00. After years of casual birding, Andrew Cole...
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Letters

01 February 1995
Comments Letters Bernard Zonfrillo (1994) did well to remind us of the anniversary of the extinction of the Great Auk Pinguinns impennis. I have visited many of the world's museums and have examined specimens of the Great Auk and other extinct species, and just handlin...
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Recent reports

01 February 1993
Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 4th-17th January 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records . Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea Filey Brigg (North Yorkshire), 13th January. Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Near Hornea...
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Reviews

01 February 1993
Comments Reviews Grouse in Space and Time: the population biology of a managed gamebird. By Peter J. Hudson. Game Conservancy, Fordingbridge, 1992. 63 colour plates; 61 line-drawings. £25.00. Over nine million acres of upland Britain are maintained in a highly ar...
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