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Waders with non-breeding plumage in the breeding season

01 January 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Why do some waders not acquire breeding plumage, but apparently retain non-breeding plumage during the breeding season? With some wader species it is usual for a significant proportion, or even most of the population, not to breed in their fir...

Status and behaviour of the Tenerife Kinglet

01 September 1996 Comments Main paper The Tenerife Kinglet Regulus teneriffae appears to be a little-studied taxon, despite the fact that its taxonomic status has given rise to much debate. This paper summarises our knowledge of this attractive bird. ABSTRACT Over the years, the sm...

Field identification of Pine Bunting

01 December 1995 Comments Main paper The Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos breeds mainly in the open woodland and forest edge of Siberia and west to the Urals. It is a partial migrant, wintering in northern China and northern India to Afghanistan, with a few west to the Middle East (reg...

The new breeding bird Survey

01 January 1994 Comments Main paper How are the numbers of British nesting birds changing? Where should we look for the reasons for upward or downward population trends? Is there anything we can do to influence those trends? Every birdwatcher should be aware that these are vitally import...

Raptor migration at Eilat

01 April 1992 Comments Main paper Raptor migration at Eilat. Hadoram Shirihai and David A. Christie. Recent work has shown that Eilat in southern Israel is one of the best places in the world for observing migrating Palearctic raptors. This paper describes the huge raptor...

Sabine's Gulls and other seabirds after the October 1987 storm

01 May 1989 Comments Main paper In a country where everyone supposedly talks about the weather, the storm of 15th/16th October 1987 and its aftermath was one of the most talked-about, written-about and filmed manifestations of weather ever experienced in Britain (Meteorological Offic...

Identification, habits and status of Great Knot

01 March 1986 Comments Main paper Among Arctic waders, the Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris is surely one of the least known and most obscure. It is very surprising that this can be said of a member of the well-studied and popular genus Calidris, especially one of conspicuously large s...

Identification of Slender-billed Curlew

01 April 1984 Comments Main paper Like all eight species of curlew Numenius, the Slender-billed Curlew N. tenuirostris breeds only in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere and is a strong migrant. The smaller members of the genus penetrate as far as the tips of the souther...

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