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Bird photography: more than just a pretty picture

01 October 2021 Comments Editorials ...

DNA analysis of a juvenile Common Snipe on Corvo, Azores

01 March 2010 Comments Main paper The Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago is a rare breeding bird in the Azores archipelago, where breeding occurs in the moist, elevated plains and moors of the islands of SaÃÆo Miguel, Terceira, SaÃÆo Jorge, Pico, Faial, Flores and Corvo. Recent ...

Identification of Wilson’s and Common Snipe

01 April 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT In recent years, the occurrence in Europe of Common Snipes Gallinago gallinago showing characters associated with the North American race G. g. delicata – notably on Scilly – has ...

Conservation research news

01 February 2004 Comments News and comment The conflict between raptor conservation and the maintenance of high densities of grouse for shooting interests has often led to the suggestion that illegal use of poisoned baits to control predators is more likely to occur on grouse moors than in othe...

Notes

01 April 1996 Comments Notes ...

Mystery photographs

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Fifty years ago

01 June 1980 Comments Other 'ROOKS COLLECTING RUBBER OBJECTS. The Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) of Wanstead Park have a strange custom which may not have been brought before the notice of readers of British Birds. For more than twenty years they have been in the habit of collectin...

Mystery photographs

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Notes

01 May 1978 Comments Notes Mutual cartwheeling by Sparrowhawks At 08.25 G M T on 6th J u n e 1976, at Rostherne Mere, Cheshire, I observed a pair of Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus soaring over a wood, the male (identified by his much smaller size) above the female. T...

Distinguishing Great Snipe from Snipe

01 October 1976 Comments Main paper Records of the Great Snipe Gallinago media are among the hardest to prove. The Rarities Committee has harped upon this theme and observers unfamiliar with the species and lacking The Handbook in their libraries are not given more than a few poi...