By Alexander Lees “The fall of 3rd September 1965 in Suffolk was by far the heaviest of its kind ever recorded in Britain. Axell and Pearson1, in a very detailed account of events in the county, have estimated that more than half a million birds descended along the 24 miles of coast between Sizewell and … Continue reading Shifting migrant baselines
Action before certainty for Africa’s European migrant birds
By Juliet A. Vickery and William M. Adams In 1974, Winstanley and his colleagues1 asked ‘Where have all the whitethroats gone?’. This followed the failure of this small migrant bird to recover from a 77% decline in the UK breeding population in 1968–1969, the suggested cause being drought-related mortality in the Sahel. Whitethroats have slowly … Continue reading Action before certainty for Africa’s European migrant birds
Tales from the flyway 