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...
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Mystery photographs

01 April 1983
Comments Main paper Last month's warbler (plate 57, repeated here) should have been identified instantly by readers with long memories, for Irene Neufeldt's photograph originally appeared in British Birds some 15 years ago (60: plate 31a). Let us, however, start from scra...
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Fifty years ago

01 June 1980
Comments Other 'ROOKS COLLECTING RUBBER OBJECTS. The Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) of Wanstead Park have a strange custom which may not have been brought before the notice of readers of British Birds. For more than twenty years they have been in the habit of collectin...
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