Volume 112 Issue 7

News and comment

01 July 2019 Comments News and comment Compiled by Adrian Pitches Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of British Birds. Garden bird feeding has boosted bird populations BTO research has revealed that the boom in... Read More

Choughs on Colonsay and Oronsay

01 July 2019 Comments Main paper By David Jardine, Mike Peacock, Morgan Vaughan and Ian Fisher Abstract A long-term study of Red-billed Choughs Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax on the... Read More

Dalmatian Pelican in Cornwall: new to Britain

01 July 2017 Comments Short paper Abstract A Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus in Cornwall in 2016 was first seen over St Gothian Sands, Gwithian, on 7th May; it remained in southwest England until 20th November, mainly i... Read More

‘Penguin dance’ by juvenile Great Crested Grebes

01 July 2019 Comments Notes During a photographic study of the life cycle of the Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus, I captured these images (plates 218–219) of second-brood juveniles at Sevenoaks, Kent, in mid August 2018. These two chicks, approximately 42 d... Read More

Some observations of Skylark behaviour in severe weather 

01 July 2019 Comments Notes During the period of severe winter weather in late February and early March 2018 (the so-called ‘Beast from the East’), I made daily visits to the coast at Waterloo, Merseyside, to observe my study population of Skylarks Alauda arvensis.... Read More

An early wild bird marking record

01 July 2019 Comments Letters As noted by, for example, Mead (1974), although formal bird ringing did not begin until the last decade of the nineteenth century, there exists an array of earlier records of the marking, and sometimes later recovery, of wild birds. Ticehurst (1932) wr... Read More

The Feather Thief

01 July 2019 Comments Reviews The Feather Thief.jpg ... Read More

Ornithology: foundation, analysis and application

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Where to Watch Birds in Scotland

01 July 2019 Comments Reviews Scottish Ornithologists’ Club free mobile app Available from www.the-soc.org.uk/about-us/app When birdwatching in pastures new, the traditional approach is to use a ‘Where to watc... Read More