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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...

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01 September 2009 Comments Notes ...

Little Gulls at sea off Yorkshire in autumn 2003

01 September 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT During autumn 2003, record numbers of Little Gulls Larus minutus were present off the Yorkshire coast.This paper estimates the extent of this gathering and describes the birds' behaviour, based on observations from both sea and land.The context o...

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...

Adult Little Gulls summering in Britain, 1975-97 with comments on the likelihood of an expansion of the breeding range

01 July 2001 Comments Main paper Small numbers of adult Little Gulls Larus minutus regularly spend the summer in Britain. During the period 1975-97 there was no increase in these numbers, with an average of 5.2 summering adults recorded each year; four confirmed breeding atte...

Monthly marathon

01 January 2001 Comments Other Bearing in mind some of the more extraordinar y guesses submitted for previous photographs in this Monthly Marathon series, such as a Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys sanguinea that, to one contestant, looked like a Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata, it i...