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Homes for birds: the use of houses for nesting by birds in the UK

01 November 2002 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A joint survey, by RSPB and the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme, investigated the use of houses for nesting by four bird species (Common Swift Apus apus, House Martin Delichon urbica, Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris ...

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01 October 2001 Comments Editorials Thanks to the generosity of well-known artist and staunch BB-supporter Ian Wallace, BB is delighted to offer its subscribers the opportunity to purchase this fantastic DIMW original, featuring European Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria and No...

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01 April 2001 Comments Notes ...

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...

Changes in numbers of Common Starlings and farming practice in Lincolnshire

01 May 1994 Comments Main paper ...

Fifty Years ago

01 November 1979 Comments Other From 'THE BEHAVIOUR OF STARLINGS IN WINTER' by V. C. Wynne-Edwards: 'It is recommended that no steps be taken to destroy Starlings wholesale by poison gas or other efficient means before their local economic status is properly examined . . Ow...

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01 April 1979 Comments Notes Little Grebe uo-ending and foot-paddling On 15th April 1977, at Corsham Lake, Wiltshire, I watched a Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis feeding in pools and channels formed when the lake was partly drained. In the deeper pools i...

Mystery photographs

01 November 1978 Comments ...

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01 October 1977 Comments Notes Displays of Moorhen In bis paper on the breeding behaviour and biology of the Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (Brit. Birds 67: 104-115, 137-158), N. A. Wood described displays performed on water when intruders were near a nest containing eggs and y...

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01 January 1977 Comments Notes Behaviour of Manx Shearwaters Previous letters on the behaviour of the Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus (Brit. Birds 67: 77; 68: 119-120) prompt me to record an incident that I witnessed on 15th June 1974 off Fetlar, Shetland, At about 00.30 h...