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Bird photography: more than just a pretty picture

01 October 2021 Comments Editorials ...

Long-tailed Tits helping at a Great Tit nest

01 August 2021 Comments Notes ...

Interaction between Long-tailed Tits and Blue Tits at a nest site

01 January 2021 Comments Notes ...

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 Wilson’s and Common Snipe

01 April 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT In recent years, the occurrence in Europe of Common Snipes Gallinago gallinago showing characters associated with the North American race G. g. delicata – notably on Scilly – has ...

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...

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 ...

Notes

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Monthly marathon

01 September 1994 Comments Other The two birds shown in plate 94 were named as White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons (37%), Bean Geese A. fabalis (35%), Pink-footed Geese A. brachyrhynchus (14%), Greylag Geese A. anser (8%) and Lesser White-fronted Geese A. erythropus (6%), wi...

Notes

01 March 1989 Comments Notes Little Grebe apparently imprinted upon female Mallard On 16th, 17th and 19th September 1986, at Marshside lagoons, Southport, Lancashire, I watched a juvenile Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis constantly accompanying a female Mallard Anas platyrhynchos....