Recent reports

01 June 2000
Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers the period 17th April to 15th May 2000. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Between Catfirth and South Nesting (Shetland), 24th April; Gruinard Bay (Highland), 3rd May; Sound of Barra (Western Isles), 6th May; off...
Read More

Recent reports

01 May 2000
Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers the period 13th March to 16th April 2000. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Gruinard Bay (Highland), 6th April. Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Rolleston-on-Dove (Staffordshire), 25th-31st March; Brixham (Devo...
Read More

Monthly marathon

01 June 1994
Comments Other With that wing-stretching wader (plate 43 in the March issue), the sixth 'Monthly marathon' has been won. It was identified as Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (48%), Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes (36%) and seven other wader species. It was a Wood Sandpi...
Read More

Notes

01 February 1933
Comments Notes ON May ist, 1932, at Leathcrcote Point, St. Margarets-atCliffe, 1 came across a bird which 1 identified as an Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris). It remained for some considerable time in the same area around some small low-lying bushes on the cliff edg...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now