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01 March 2006 Comments Notes All Notes submitted to British Birds are subject to independent review, either by the Notes Panel or by the BB Editorial Board.Those considered appropriate for BB will be published either here or on our website (www.britishbirds.co.uk) subject to the a...

Letters

01 March 2006 Comments Letters When Garner (2005) reviewed the `Fair Isle sandpiper' (FIS), his reasoning that the bird was not a Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri seemed compelling. It is not possible for statistics to prove that the bird was one species or another, since it deals o...

Seabirds and pipefish: A request for records

01 March 2006 Comments Editorials Seabirds in the northeast Atlantic usually feed their chicks on small, oil-rich shoaling fish such as sandeels Ammodytes marinus, sprats Sprattus sprattus, herring Clupea harengus and capelin Mallotus villosus. Although many other fish species have bee...

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 2: Short-toed Lark to Little Bunting

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper This is the second part of this, the ninth, annual Scarce Migrants report, which covers the passerine species from Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla to Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla. Part 1 of the report, which dealt with non-passerines, has ...

Has the juvenile plumage of Honey-buzzard evolved to mimic that of Common Buzzard?

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Juvenile Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus exhibit a striking resemblance to Common Buzzards Buteo buteo, even though the two species are not closely related. Both species, but particularly Honey-buzzards, rather frequently fall prey to Northern ...

British Birds – March 2006

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AUTUMN BIRD-MIGRATION ACROSS THE SOUTH MIDLANDS OF ENGLAND

01 August 1950 Comments Main paper The existence of an overland migration route across the South Midlands of England, during the autumn months. Observations made in the autumn of 1948 within a few miles of the Cotswold Hills led to the discovery of such a route running in a south-w...

Reviews

01 April 1941 Comments Reviews Lundy : Isle of Puffins. By Richard Perry. (Lindsay Drummond.) With 37 photographs by Alan Richardson. 12s. 6d. net. T H I S book is the result of observation during the five summer months of 1939 which Mr. Perry spent on Lundy, off the N. Devon coast. It...

Notes

01 April 1941 Comments Notes THE recoveries of ringed Redwings (Turdus musicus), though still few, are of sufficient interest to bring together in a separate note. No recovery of a ringed Redwing was reported until early in 1938, although up to that time 576 had been marked. Then tw...

Obituary: Claud Buchanan Ticehurst (1881-1941)

01 April 1941 Comments Obituaries CLAUD BUCHANAN TICEHURST (1881-1941) W E deeply regret to announce the death of Dr. Claud Buchanan Ticehurst, of Saxon House, Appledore, Kent, on February 17th, 1941, after a short illness. He was the third son of August Rowland Ticehurst, V.D., J.P., M....

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Seabirds and pipefish: A request for records

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 2: Short-toed Lark to Little Bunting

Has the juvenile plumage of Honey-buzzard evolved to mimic that of Common Buzzard?

British Birds – March 2006

AUTUMN BIRD-MIGRATION ACROSS THE SOUTH MIDLANDS OF ENGLAND

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Obituary: Claud Buchanan Ticehurst (1881-1941)

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