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Breeding Marsh Warblers in Britain

01 May 2021 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

01 March 2005 Comments Notes Little Grebe swallowing small mammal Cream-coloured Courser showing feeding attachement to desert road Exceptional numbers of Oriental Plovers in southern Siberia in 2003 Ruffs feeding on contents of Giraffe's stomach Ta...

Species limits in Acrocephalus and Hippolais warblers from the Western Palearctic

01 June 2004 Comments Main paper ...

Monthly marathon

01 December 2000 Comments Other It's a Ruff Philomachus pugnax, isn't it? October's Monthly Marathon picture (plate 300, repeated here as plate 363) is one that I expect many people will have recognised instantly without necessarily being able to put their finger on exactly ...

Letters

01 June 2000 Comments Letters ...

Letter

01 June 1997 Comments Letters A pair of unstreaked Acrocephalus warblers nested in Orkney in 1993 (Adam & Meek 1994; Ogilvie et al. 1996). Based on (1) comparison of measurements with Walinder et al. (1988), (2) the birds' general coloration and (3) the comparative frequency of...

Monthly marathon

01 September 1994 Comments Other The two birds shown in plate 94 were named as White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons (37%), Bean Geese A. fabalis (35%), Pink-footed Geese A. brachyrhynchus (14%), Greylag Geese A. anser (8%) and Lesser White-fronted Geese A. erythropus (6%), wi...

Letters

01 February 1992 Comments Letters Status of Marsh Warbler in Norway Kelsey et al. (1989), in their interesting paper on the Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus palustris in Britain, summarised the species' northward expansion into the St Petersburg region and in Finland and Sweden, but made no ...

Monthly marathon

01 October 1986 Comments Other Skylark Alauda arvensis (68%) Woodlark Lullula arborea (18%) Lesser Short-toed Lark Calandrella rufescens (5%) Oriental Skylark A. gulgula (4%) Thekla Lark Galerida theklae (3%) Lapland Bunting Calcarius lapponicus (1%) There were also a small number o...

Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1982 Comments Other 'EVERYONE who takes an interest in the birds of this country will have the greatest satisfaction in learning that the Ruff, so long lost to Norfolk as a breeding bird, has once more nested in the county.' (Brit, Birds 1: 65, August 1907) ...