Letters

01 January 1967
Comments Letters 'Meat or sickly sweets' Sirs,--I entirely disagree with Philip S. Redman (Brk. Birds, 59: 390). It seems to me that a really comprehensive interest in ornithology must extend beyond the birds to those who have made outstanding contributions to our knowled...
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Reviews

01 January 1967
Comments Reviews Ireland's Birds: Their Distribution and Migrations. By Robert F. Ruttledge. Witherby, London, 1966. 207 pages; 11 plates and a map. 30s. Ireland has not been specially noted for its ornithology in the past; the birds were known to be there, when people we...
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Notes

01 January 1967
Comments Notes Heron apparently fishing i n deep water.--The observations below were made by us independently on two separate days, but, because the behaviour was so similar on each occasion as to suggest that it might be the not infrequent habit of one individual, the ...
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Editorial

01 January 1967
Comments Editorials SINCE THE 1939-45 WAR, interest in ornithology in Britain and Ireland has grown strikingly, with perhaps a ten-fold increase in the number of amateur field-observers and an even more marked rise in the number of professional workers. Knowledge has grown c...
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Requests for information

01 May 1962
Comments Editorials Wreck of Fulmars in February and March 1962.--Unusual numbers of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) were noted close inshore on various parts of the east coast during February, In some areas a high proportion were of dark or intermediate phases. During the next...
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Letters

01 May 1962
Comments Letters Ringed birds in snow Sirs,--During the snowy period of early January 1962, in my garden sanctuary near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, I saw two ringed birds, a Blue Tit (Pants caerukus) and a Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus), with their rings thickly coated ...
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