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Common Eider nesting on harbour ledge in Kirkcaldy

01 April 2021 Comments Notes On 14th May 2020, William Dickson told me about a Common Eider Somateria mollissima sitting on a nest on the harbour wall at Kirkcaldy, Fife. The nest was situated on the only patch of vegetation along the entire harbour ledge. On 25th May the b...

A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man

01 April 2021 Comments Reviews A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man. The Common Eider and Homo sapiens: fourteen centuries togetherBy Alexandra Goryashko...

Arctic Skuas caring for Common Eider duckling

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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...

Little Gulls at sea off Yorkshire in autumn 2003

01 September 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT During autumn 2003, record numbers of Little Gulls Larus minutus were present off the Yorkshire coast.This paper estimates the extent of this gathering and describes the birds' behaviour, based on observations from both sea and land.The context o...

Conservation research news

01 May 2003 Comments News and comment The Dutch Wadden Sea is of international importance for Common Eiders Somateria mollissima, with between 102,000 and 173,000 individuals spending the winter there. In the winter of 1999/2000, beached bird surveys detected a mass mortality even...

Flight identification of Common Eider, King Eider and Steller's Eider

01 May 2002 Comments Main paper Tony Svensson 1Spring flocks impart a vivid black-and-white impression.They are rarely confused with other ducks, but other species of eider can be overlooked in the flock. ...

Adult Little Gulls summering in Britain, 1975-97 with comments on the likelihood of an expansion of the breeding range

01 July 2001 Comments Main paper Small numbers of adult Little Gulls Larus minutus regularly spend the summer in Britain. During the period 1975-97 there was no increase in these numbers, with an average of 5.2 summering adults recorded each year; four confirmed breeding atte...

Monthly marathon

01 January 2001 Comments Other Bearing in mind some of the more extraordinar y guesses submitted for previous photographs in this Monthly Marathon series, such as a Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys sanguinea that, to one contestant, looked like a Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata, it i...