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The migration of Common and Arctic Terns in southern England

01 April 2014 Comments Main paper By Keith Vinicombe Abstract Counts of Common Sterna hirundo and Arctic Terns S. paradisaea at Chew Valley Lake, Avon, are analysed over a 36-year period. These data are compared with counts from seawatching headlands on the s...

Conservation research news

01 February 2004 Comments News and comment The conflict between raptor conservation and the maintenance of high densities of grouse for shooting interests has often led to the suggestion that illegal use of poisoned baits to control predators is more likely to occur on grouse moors than in othe...

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01 March 2002 Comments Notes Is there a dark morph of the North African race of Long-legged Buzzard? Dificulties in determining the age of Arctic Terns in the field Sparrowhawk extracting Gret Tit from feeding cage Hunting method of Merlins in the breeding ...

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01 February 2001 Comments Notes At 17.45 hours on 20th March 1995, at East Hyde on the River Lea, 3.2 km north of Batford, Hertfordshire, I observed an immature Grey Heron Ardea cinerea perched on a branch of an Alder Alnus glutinosa, the only tree along that stretch of the river. Ow...

Inland spring passage of Arctic Terns in southern Britain

01 May 1995 Comments Main paper Inland spring passage through Britain of large numbers of Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea is not a recent phenomenon. A remarkable passage occurred in April 1947, related to a weather system which produced strong southwesterly gales during 19th-23rd: Ar...

If the caption fits . . .

01 May 1990 Comments Editorials This Black-headed Gull Lams ridibundus (plate 125, opposite) was photographed in Suffolk in November 1977 by Terry Bond, who suggested that the bird is saying: 'You wouldn't believe how many people identify me as a Laughing Gull!' Can you think of an e...

If the caption fits . . .

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Letters

01 September 1989 Comments Letters The identification of large terns. The paper on the 'Identification of large terns' (Brit. Birds 80: 257-276) gave the impression (fig. 2) that Royal Tern Sterna maxima has an almost blood-red bill, not especially dissimilar from that of Caspian S. cas...