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01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

01 November 2004 Comments Main paper This is the forty-sixth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of accepted records of rare birds in Britain in 2003, with some additional, outstanding records from earlier years. On average, we process about 1,000 re...

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Predation and protection at Dungeness Bird Reserve

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01 May 1956 Comments Reviews By L. S. V. and U . M. VENABLES. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1955). 391 p a g e s ; 8 photographic plates; 3 maps. 30s. T H E islands of Shetland, meeting-place of northern and southern elements in our fauna, and maritime outpost of a region where strik...

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01 May 1956 Comments Notes amount of time was spent in 1955, and to a lesser extent in 1954, in an attempt to plot the breeding distribution of Red-backed Shrikes (Lanius collurio) in parts of the New Forest, Hampshire. It is frequently cited in the literature that this bird is bot...

The Annual Mortality of the Blue Tit in different parts of its range

01 May 1956 Comments Main paper FIRST-YEAR Blue Tits (Parus caeruleus) can be distinguished from older birds by inspection of their wing-coverts. In first-year birds the bastard wing and primary coverts, and sometimes one or more outer secondary coverts, are dull greenish blue, contrast...

Some Photographic Studies of the Pink-footed Goose

01 May 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 9-16) T H E Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) breeds in east Greenland {between 68Â° and 76Â° N . ) , Iceland and Spitsbergen and is generally held to be the westernmost form of the Bean Goose (Anser arvensis), of which there are severa...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

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Predation and protection at Dungeness Bird Reserve

Obituary

Reviews

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The Annual Mortality of the Blue Tit in different parts of its range

Some Photographic Studies of the Pink-footed Goose

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