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Common Eider nesting on harbour ledge in Kirkcaldy

01 April 2021 Comments Notes On 14th May 2020, William Dickson told me about a Common Eider Somateria mollissima sitting on a nest on the harbour wall at Kirkcaldy, Fife. The nest was situated on the only patch of vegetation along the entire harbour ledge. On 25th May the b...

A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man

01 April 2021 Comments Reviews A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man. The Common Eider and Homo sapiens: fourteen centuries togetherBy Alexandra Goryashko...

Arctic Skuas caring for Common Eider duckling

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BB eye: Swansong – a lifetime with sparrows

01 September 2016 Comments Editorials Denis Summers-Smith I began my study of House Sparrows Passer domesticus...

Protocol for censusing urban sparrows

16 May 2011 Comments Main paper Jenny De Laet, Will J. Peach and J. Denis Summers-Smith ...

Letters

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Notes

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The decline of the House Sparrow: a review

01 September 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The House Sparrow Passer domesticus population in Britain suffered a major decline in the 1920s, particularly in built-up areas, which coincided with the replacement of the horse by the internal combustion engine.The mixed fortun...

Letters

01 June 2003 Comments Letters In October 2000, the Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) commissioned a consortium (consisting of the BTO, the RSPB/Oxford University Farmland Bird Group, the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) and WildWings Bird Management) ...

Conservation research news

01 May 2003 Comments News and comment The Dutch Wadden Sea is of international importance for Common Eiders Somateria mollissima, with between 102,000 and 173,000 individuals spending the winter there. In the winter of 1999/2000, beached bird surveys detected a mass mortality even...