ICBP news

01 November 1991
Comments Editorials In response to a request from the International Council for Bird Preservation, we shall be publishing a regular short feature on international bird conservation topics, in addition to those which we have always included in 'News and comment'. EDS. ...
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Fieldwork action

01 November 1991
Comments Editorials Regional Development Officers. During 1992-93, the BTO will be setting up a new regional network. This will consist of BTO members keen to promote the BTO at the local level in a systematic way. The new volunteers will be called Regional Development Of...
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Letter

01 November 1991
Comments Letters Identification of Meadow and Red-throated Pipits. In a 'Mystery photographs' text {Brit. Birds 79: 34-40), the late P.J. Grant discussed the identification of Meadow Anthus pratensis and Red-throated Pipits A. cervinus, prompted by a series of photogra...
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Notes

01 November 1991
Comments Notes Herons alighting on sea. On 31st August 1985, from the Zuluf offshore oilfield in the Persian Gulf, N. J. S. Drummond and I observed a migrating flight of seven Purple Herons Ardea purpurea flying very low over the sea. One of them suddenly a...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1991
Comments Other ' Mr W. J. E. Dawson states that he discovered a pair of Lanius collurio near Athlone about the end of April, 1916. Mr Dawson has kindly sent us further details of the birds he saw and we feel sure from what he says that he was mistaken in his identifi...
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Winter summary

01 October 1976
Comments News and comment There were few reports of gatherings of divers. The only ones of any real interest were as follows: 15 Great Northern Gavia immer at Golspie (Highland) in mid-January; 24 Black-throated G. arctica near Dodman Point (Cornwall) on 20th March; and 35 Red-...
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News and Comment

01 October 1976
Comments News and comment British ornithologists held by guerrillas Since about 9th May, Stephanie Tyler, well known for her studies of Grey Wagtails (e.g. Bird Study, 19: 69-80), together with her husband Lindsay and their two children, Robert (8) and Sarah (5), have b...
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Reviews

01 October 1976
Comments Reviews British Birds of Prey. By Leslie Brown. Collins 'New Naturalist', London, 1976. 400 pages; 34 m a p s ; 11 figures; 23 tables; eight pages of appendix tables; 40 black-and-white photographs. £6.00. Aficionado and professional alike have waited...
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