Bird photograph of the year

01 July 1994
Comments Main paper Take the best work of 1993 by the cream of Europe's bird-photographers, and you are sure to enjoy the show: but judging the best of the best becomes extraordinarily difficult. Such was the pleasure and the pain faced by photographic consultant, Don Smi...
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European news

01 July 1994
Comments Main paper This regular six-monthly feature summarises information for the whole of Europe (and some adjacent parts of the Western Palearctic) and has officially been adopted by the Association of European Rarities Committees for publication of compilations of ma...
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A study of Swift weights

01 September 1971
Comments Main paper N E A R L Y A L L OF 2,546 Swifts Apus apus caught at Rye Meads Sewage Purification Works, Hertfordshire, in the late spring and summer of 1962 (845) and 1963 (1,701) were weighed and examined before being ringed and released. The pattern of the weights w...
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