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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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An exceptional movement of Redwings across northwest England in October 2004

01 February 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT On the weekend of 9th–10th October 2004, an unprecedented movement of Redwings Turdus iliacus was witnessed in northwest England. The birds were heading in the unusual direction of east and north instead of the mo...

The BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year 2005

01 February 2006 Comments Main paper British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology announce the winner of the Award for BEST BIRD BOOK OF THE YEAR. All books reviewed in British Birds or the BTO publications BTO News and Bird Study during the year 2005 were eligible for consideratio...

Masked Shrike: new to Britain

01 February 2006 Comments Open Access ABSTRACT A juvenile Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus was present at Kilrenny Common, Fife, from 29th October to 14th November 2004.This constitutes the first record for Britain.The possible origin of the bird and the weather patterns immediately p...

Seventy-five years ago

01 February 2006 Comments Other That the number of Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps c. cristatus) nesting in some parts of England is largely determined by the frequency of nesting sites of a certain type can, I think, be proved from the remarkable rapidity they show in coloni...

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