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01 March 2006 Comments Notes All Notes submitted to British Birds are subject to independent review, either by the Notes Panel or by the BB Editorial Board.Those considered appropriate for BB will be published either here or on our website (www.britishbirds.co.uk) subject to the a...

Letters

01 March 2006 Comments Letters When Garner (2005) reviewed the `Fair Isle sandpiper' (FIS), his reasoning that the bird was not a Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri seemed compelling. It is not possible for statistics to prove that the bird was one species or another, since it deals o...

Seabirds and pipefish: A request for records

01 March 2006 Comments Editorials Seabirds in the northeast Atlantic usually feed their chicks on small, oil-rich shoaling fish such as sandeels Ammodytes marinus, sprats Sprattus sprattus, herring Clupea harengus and capelin Mallotus villosus. Although many other fish species have bee...

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 2: Short-toed Lark to Little Bunting

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper This is the second part of this, the ninth, annual Scarce Migrants report, which covers the passerine species from Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla to Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla. Part 1 of the report, which dealt with non-passerines, has ...

Has the juvenile plumage of Honey-buzzard evolved to mimic that of Common Buzzard?

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Juvenile Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus exhibit a striking resemblance to Common Buzzards Buteo buteo, even though the two species are not closely related. Both species, but particularly Honey-buzzards, rather frequently fall prey to Northern ...

British Birds – March 2006

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Reviews

01 January 1956 Comments Reviews By D . A. BANNERMAN and G. E. LODGE. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1955). V O L . I V . 259 p a g e s ; 29 plates. 45s. T H E present volume is a worthy successor to the preceding ones, but again whets the appetite for those which are to come. It covers t...

Notes

01 January 1956 Comments Notes Harlequin Duck in Shetland.--While watching- waders at half tide at the Pool of Virkie, south Shetland, on the afternoon of 16th October 1955, we noticed a small dark duck which we believed was a female or first-winter Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrio...

Nest-Sanitation and Fledging of the Green Woodpecker

01 January 1956 Comments Main paper THERE is considerable conflict in the accounts of nest-sanitation by the Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis). Owen (1921) w r i t e s : " F r o m . n e s t s I have opened from time to time after the young have flown, it seems that generally the nest is kept...

A Raven Roost in Devon

01 January 1956 Comments Main paper A T least one large roost of Ravens (Corvus corax) has been reported in Scotland and another in W a l e s . In W . Cornwall there was one in 1945 and 1946 near an abnormally liberal food supply. In October the number of Ravens using this roost was between...

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Seabirds and pipefish: A request for records

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 2: Short-toed Lark to Little Bunting

Has the juvenile plumage of Honey-buzzard evolved to mimic that of Common Buzzard?

British Birds – March 2006

Reviews

Notes

Nest-Sanitation and Fledging of the Green Woodpecker

A Raven Roost in Devon

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