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01 March 2011 Comments Letters Hawk Owl in Wiltshire ...

Mike Madders (1957-2009)

01 March 2010 Comments Obituaries Mike Madders was a professional ornitholo- gist, best known for his work on the likely impact of wind-power development on upland birds in Scotland. He is more popu- larly known for the many books he authored and published. Mike was born in Leicester on ...

The status of Caspian Gull in Malta

01 March 2010 Comments Main paper Although gull-watching on Malta has been carried out by the authors for over 20 years, more systematic observations were under- taken during 2001-09. Sessions are held in most months, with more intensive effort from August to April, but especially during ...

DNA analysis of a juvenile Common Snipe on Corvo, Azores

01 March 2010 Comments Main paper The Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago is a rare breeding bird in the Azores archipelago, where breeding occurs in the moist, elevated plains and moors of the islands of SaÃÆo Miguel, Terceira, SaÃÆo Jorge, Pico, Faial, Flores and Corvo. Recent ...

Identification of Caspian Gull

01 March 2010 Comments Main paper Abstract This paper deals with the identification of the Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans. The aim is to synthesise what is currently known about the identification of this species and discuss the appearance of proven and suspected hybrids. The paper is spli...

Notes

01 March 2010 Comments Interactions between breeding Black Swans and Mute Swans in Cheshire & Wirral ...

Letters

01 January 1957 Comments Letters " ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE AND BIRD F L I G H T " S I R S , -- I n his letter on the above subject (antea, vol. xlviii, p p . 557-559) I. C. T . Nisbet puts forward an ingenious theory of wind-determination by feel. While agreeing that it is possible, I als...

Reviews

01 January 1957 Comments Reviews By JAMES FISHER (Pelican Books, London, 1955). 3s. 6d. THIS is the third in an excellent series eventually to total four volumes covering all but the rarer blrds on the British Ost. The birds included faere are the rails, game-birds, and larger perching ...

Notes

01 January 1957 Comments Notes Group-display of Smews.--On 5th February 1956, at Swithland Reservoir, Leicestershire, I watched a form of social display in a group of Smews (Mergus albellus) consisting of three males and two females, for a period of about half an hour, just before dusk...

Song-posts of the Blackbird in a Built-up area

01 January 1957 Comments Main paper IN the paper "Buildings as song-posts" (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 211215) I described and tabulated the perches used by nine species of birds in füll song, that were seen along the two-mile route I cycled daily--apart from week-ends and holidays--between m...

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Mike Madders (1957-2009)

The status of Caspian Gull in Malta

DNA analysis of a juvenile Common Snipe on Corvo, Azores

Identification of Caspian Gull

Notes

Letters

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Notes

Song-posts of the Blackbird in a Built-up area

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