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Breeding Marsh Warblers in Britain

01 May 2021 Comments Main paper ...

Redstart hybrids in Europe and North Africa

01 April 2019 Comments Main paper Nicolas Martinez, Bernd Nicolai and Vincent van der SpekAbstract An analysis of 121 wild Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros x Common Redstart P. phoenicurus hybrids from Europe and North Africa is presented, wit...

'Eastern Black Redstart': new to Britain

08 April 2016 Comments BOURC By Andy Stoddart, on behalf of BBRC and BOURCAbstract An orange-bellied Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros at Dungeness, Kent, in November 1981 was originally accepted by BBRC as being of an eastern subspecies but a su...

Notes

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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...

Species limits in Acrocephalus and Hippolais warblers from the Western Palearctic

01 June 2004 Comments Main paper ...

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01 November 2001 Comments Notes A recent paper dealing with the identification of Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca (Vinicombe 2000) included some discussion on hybrids between that species and Common Pochard A. ferina. Vinicombe's advice, that if a putative Ferruginous Duck shows any a...

Monthly marathon

01 December 2000 Comments Other It's a Ruff Philomachus pugnax, isn't it? October's Monthly Marathon picture (plate 300, repeated here as plate 363) is one that I expect many people will have recognised instantly without necessarily being able to put their finger on exactly ...

Letters

01 June 2000 Comments Letters ...

Letter

01 June 1997 Comments Letters A pair of unstreaked Acrocephalus warblers nested in Orkney in 1993 (Adam & Meek 1994; Ogilvie et al. 1996). Based on (1) comparison of measurements with Walinder et al. (1988), (2) the birds' general coloration and (3) the comparative frequency of...