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British Birds – June 2007

01 June 2007 Comments Latest issues ...

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2003 and 2004

01 June 2007 Comments Main paper ...

A survey of breeding Black-necked Grebes in the UK: 1973–2004

01 June 2007 Comments Main paper ...

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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 ...

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01 June 1939 Comments Notes THE recent note about Blackbirds (Turius m. merula) feeding on small fish (antea, Vol. XXXII, p. 397) recalls to me that six or seven years ago I watched a pair take repeatedly small tadpoles from a shallow bay of the Little Exe, above Dulverton. Both bir...

Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...

Notes on the Lapwing and Curlew Breeding Population of a Cumberland Farm

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper 1937 and 1938 a census was undertaken of' the Lapwings (Vaneihts vanellus) and Curlews (Numenius a. atquata) breeding on an area of farm-land in Cumberland extending to 650 acres or approximately one square mile. This area is about three hundred feet abov...

Some Notes on the Diurnal Song of Birds

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper (Plate i.) H. G. ALEXANDER in his invaluable paper on the "Song of Birds " (antea, Vol. XXIX, pp. 190-8) dealt with, as it may be called, the " longitudinal aspect" of the subject, that is to say with the duration of song between the beginning and end of ...

Additions and Alterations to the British List

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper changes appearing in Volume II. of The Handbook of British Birds have not previously been notified in these pages and these are briefly referred to below. In addition there are some changes in Volume III., and as this is about to be published it will be c...

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01 May 1939 Comments Notes IN May, 1937, I watched a hen Blackbird (Turdus m. merula) at the weir at Cropston Reservoir, Leicestershire, catching what I took to be minnows, but they may have been sticklebacks. The fish had been stranded in small shallow pools and were swimming abo...

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British Birds – June 2007

Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2003 and 2004

A survey of breeding Black-necked Grebes in the UK: 1973–2004

Notes

Notes

Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

Notes on the Lapwing and Curlew Breeding Population of a Cumberland Farm

Some Notes on the Diurnal Song of Birds

Additions and Alterations to the British List

Notes

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