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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

01 September 2007 Comments Letters ...

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01 June 2007 Comments Notes Slavonian Grebe breeding with Great Crested Grebe Puffin with exceptionally heavy tick infestation Eurasian Sparrowhawk attacking Soprano Pipistrelle bat Reed Warbler apparently using willow-bark pieces in nest construction ...

Seventy-five years ago

01 February 2006 Comments Other That the number of Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps c. cristatus) nesting in some parts of England is largely determined by the frequency of nesting sites of a certain type can, I think, be proved from the remarkable rapidity they show in coloni...

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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...

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) ...

Homes for birds: the use of houses for nesting by birds in the UK

01 November 2002 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A joint survey, by RSPB and the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme, investigated the use of houses for nesting by four bird species (Common Swift Apus apus, House Martin Delichon urbica, Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris ...