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The BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year 2010

01 February 2011 Comments Main paper We gathered, as usual, on the Friday good book is to be able to grip the reader's afternoon before the BTO's Swanwick conference to judge this award. What was not quite so typical was the deep snow lying in Derbyshire and chal- lenging travelling conditio...

The Sociable Lapwing in Europe

01 February 2011 Comments Main paper Abstract Records of the Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius in western and central Europe were analysed. Sightings in these areas reached 20-21 per year in 2003-05, the most recent years for which complete data were available, with records from France, Sp...

The probable breeding of Ferruginous Ducks in Avon

01 February 2011 Comments Main paper Abstract The probable breeding of Ferruginous Ducks Aythya nyroca at Chew Valley Lake, Avon, is documented. In 2003 and 2004, nesting attempts probably took place, although no nest or young were observed and it is assumed that...

Northern Gannets in the North Sea

01 February 2011 Comments Main paper Abstract Field observations around the largest Northern Gannet Morus bassanus colony in the North Sea, the Bass Rock, showed that 66% of all Gannets foraged in areas with very low densities of conspecifics, more than 100 km fr...

Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper In October 1962, while travelling from New York to Southampton in R.M.S. Mauretania, I was fortunate to witness a fall of over 130 American landbirds of 34 species (Durand 1963). This was the highlight of five years of voyaging across the North Atlantic i...

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper ...

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