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Bird photography: more than just a pretty picture

01 October 2021 Comments Editorials ...

Long-tailed Tits helping at a Great Tit nest

01 August 2021 Comments Notes ...

Interaction between Long-tailed Tits and Blue Tits at a nest site

01 January 2021 Comments Notes ...

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...

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...

Spring passage of Little Gulls across Northern England

01 September 1993 Comments Main paper ...

Egypt as a major wintering area of Little Gulls

01 September 1993 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

01 March 1989 Comments Notes Little Grebe apparently imprinted upon female Mallard On 16th, 17th and 19th September 1986, at Marshside lagoons, Southport, Lancashire, I watched a juvenile Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis constantly accompanying a female Mallard Anas platyrhynchos....

Co-operative breeding by Long-tailed Tits

01 December 1988 Comments Main paper For most of this century, ornithologists have tended to believe that the majority of birds breed monogamously, with either the pair or, in some species, the female alone raising the brood; to find more than a single pair at a nest was considered to be ...