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Wood Pigeon killing Eurasian Sparrowhawk

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A ‘Grey-bellied Brant’ in Norfolk

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01 April 2009 Comments Letters Black Brants and the problem of intergrades The curious case of the disappearing storm-petrel ...

Highlights from a long-term study of Sparrowhawks

01 November 2008 Comments ABSTRACT The numbers of Eurasian Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus that breed in any landscape depend primarily on the amount of woodland, but within that woodland breeding densities vary with the prey supply. In continuous woodland, pairs space th...

Notes

01 March 2005 Comments Notes Little Grebe swallowing small mammal Cream-coloured Courser showing feeding attachement to desert road Exceptional numbers of Oriental Plovers in southern Siberia in 2003 Ruffs feeding on contents of Giraffe's stomach Ta...

Further developments in 'Black Brant' identification, including the effects of body moult on the wintering grounds

01 June 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT In recent winters, several examples of apparent intergrades between dark-bellied Brent Geese Branta bernicla bernicla and `Black Brants' B. b. nigricans have been documented in Britain and elsewhere in Europe. A bird in Norfo...

Letters

01 September 2002 Comments Letters While it came as no great surprise to the observers of the `Dungeness petrel' (Brit. Birds 95: 156-165) that the record was rejected, this feeling merely reflects what we take to be a widespread view among observers: that the BBRC finds it very difficu...

Unusual Brent Geese in Norfolk and Hampshire

01 March 2002 Comments Main paper Two unusual Brent Geese Branta bernicla, seen in winter in Norfolk and Hampshire, are discussed in this paper.They appeared superficially similar to the North American and east Siberian race nigricans (‘Black Brant’), but a number of ...