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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 ...

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 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...

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01 February 2001 Comments Notes At 17.45 hours on 20th March 1995, at East Hyde on the River Lea, 3.2 km north of Batford, Hertfordshire, I observed an immature Grey Heron Ardea cinerea perched on a branch of an Alder Alnus glutinosa, the only tree along that stretch of the river. Ow...

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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....

Co-operative breeding by Long-tailed Tits

01 December 1988 Comments Main paper For most of this century, ornithologists have tended to believe that the majority of birds breed monogamously, with either the pair or, in some species, the female alone raising the brood; to find more than a single pair at a nest was considered to be ...