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Birds in Winter: surviving the most challenging season

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Ospreys: the revival of a global raptor

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Ospreys

01 November 2019 Comments Reviews By Tim Mackrill Bloomsbury, 2019 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series) Sbk, 128pp; many colour photographs ISBN 978-1-4729-5603-3; £12.99 It’s always nice to have a choice and for all but the most devoted of Osprey afi...

Woodpeckers

01 November 2019 Comments Reviews By Gerard Gorman Bloomsbury, 2018 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series) Pbk, 128pp; many colour photographs ISBN 978-1-4729-5118-2; £9.99 The ‘RSPB Spotlight’ series is shining its bright, if rather narrow, bea...

BB eye: The Red Kite reintroduction – 30 years on

01 August 2019 Comments Editorials By Ian Carter On 1st August 1989, a handful of young Swedish Red Kites Milvus milvus were sitting patiently in their holding pens, tucked away in a secluded valley in the Chiltern Hills in southern England. Later that day they w...

The Blue Vesper: ecology and conservation of the Red-footed Falcon

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Roof assemblies of lapwings and plovers in Britain

01 January 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The use of the large roof areas of commercial and industrial premises for daytime roosting by Northern Lapwings Vanellus vanellus and European Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria is a relatively new phenomenon, confined mostly...

Notes

01 September 1998 Comments Notes The northeast Algerian breeding population of White Storks Ciconia ciconia normally leaves for sub-Saharan winter quarters in July and August, at the time when other long-legged marshbirds arrive to winter alongside the large resident population of Cat...

Notes

01 January 1982 Comments Notes Behaviour of Golden Plovers in strong wind. On 16th November 1968, during gale-force winds and rain, I visited Stithians Reservoir, a bleak and exposed locality near Truro, Cornwall. At close range for about two hours, I watched a group of abou...