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01 March 2011 Comments Letters Hawk Owl in Wiltshire ...

Mike Madders (1957-2009)

01 March 2010 Comments Obituaries Mike Madders was a professional ornitholo- gist, best known for his work on the likely impact of wind-power development on upland birds in Scotland. He is more popu- larly known for the many books he authored and published. Mike was born in Leicester on ...

The status of Caspian Gull in Malta

01 March 2010 Comments Main paper Although gull-watching on Malta has been carried out by the authors for over 20 years, more systematic observations were under- taken during 2001-09. Sessions are held in most months, with more intensive effort from August to April, but especially during ...

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 Caspian Gull

01 March 2010 Comments Main paper Abstract This paper deals with the identification of the Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans. The aim is to synthesise what is currently known about the identification of this species and discuss the appearance of proven and suspected hybrids. The paper is spli...

Notes

01 March 2010 Comments Interactions between breeding Black Swans and Mute Swans in Cheshire & Wirral ...

Mystery photographs

01 February 1982 Comments Main paper The grass provides scale, and last month's mystery bird is clearly a largish warbler. The first step in narrowing the identification further should be to determine the genus. The bill is not particularly long nor obviously wide-based, so thou...

Timing of bathing, dusting and sunning

01 February 1982 Comments Main paper This study developed from examination of variations between bird species in their bathing habits, fluctuating with season, time of day and weather. As work progressed, the incidence of dusting, and later of sunning, was included in an attempt to discov...

Woodpigeons and Black Kites nesting in close proximity

01 February 1982 Comments Main paper In May and June 1972, we investigated some factors we considered would be associated with nest-site choice by Woodpigeons Columba palumbus and Black Kites Milvus migrans nesting close to each other in a wood of stone pines Pinus pinea in the Coto Doña...

Forster's Tern: new to Britain and Ireland

01 February 1982 Comments Main paper At about 12.00 GMT on 29th January 1980, I was surprised to notice a tern feeding well offshore in the bay at Swanpool, Falmouth, Cornwall. Its lean proportions and plunge-diving habits recalled a Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis, but after ...

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