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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...

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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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Letters

01 July 1959 Comments Letters B L A C K B I R D S F E E D I N G ON M A R I N E W O R M S S I R S , -- I can confirm the note by Mr. Roger Harkness (antea, p. 97) on Blackbirds (Turdus merula) feeding on marine worms, strangely enough from the same part of Hampshire--at Hill Head, whic...

Notes

01 July 1959 Comments Notes Duration of dives of Black-throated Diver.--In Sutherland on -25th May 1955 we were able to make continuous observations for nearly four hours on the diving of a Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica). T h e site was a loch half a mile wide and seven miles ...

Visible migration in N.E. Norfolk in November 1956

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper IN THE LATE AUTUMN of 1956 my wife and I watched for visible migration near Cromer in north-east Norfolk on thirteen days during the period 31st October-i5th November. Our actual observation point was the cliff top at East Runton which is about two miles ...

An historic series of Cuckoo photographs

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper (Plates 43-44) IN 1918 the late E d g a r P . Chance began making an intensive study of the habits of a female Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) on Arley Common, Worcestershire, and in the autumn of 1921 he offered to the film trade a cine-film with the title " T ...

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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

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Visible migration in N.E. Norfolk in November 1956

An historic series of Cuckoo photographs

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