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13 March 2014 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The previous summary {Brit. Birds, 65: 267-268) covered most of the rarities and scarce migrants in March. Here we deal with the departure of certain winter visitors and the arrival of spring ...

News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment Wildfowl Trust expansion The Wildfowl Trust has announced plans for a major refuge and waterfowl collection in Lancashire. The chosen site is that of the former Martin Mere, between Southport and Burscough Bridge, which was drained for agriculture in the ...

Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters Danish White Storks in south-west England I was very interested in J. B. Bottomley's article on the wanderings of three young White Storks Ciconia ciconia from FrÃËstrup, Denmark, in September 1971 (Brit. Birds, 65: 4-5, plates 1-3). During the summ...

Notes

13 March 2014 Comments Notes Moorhen completely submerging for more than a minute On 16 th January 1972 James Parkin and I were walking along the bank of the River Eden near Musgrave, Westmorland, when we saw a Moorhen Gallinula chloropus disappear into a pool about 2 5 metres away. ...

Succession in breeding bird populations of sample Welsh oakwoods

13 March 2014 Comments Main paper Oakwoods in western Wales have long been regarded as the seminatural remnants of the region's climax vegetation, and several of the less fragmented examples have been acquired by various conservation bodies for management as nature reserves. The botany of...

Field identification of Richard's and Tawny Pipits

13 March 2014 Comments Main paper Plate 48b The publication in 1963 of a paper concerned mainly with the identification of Richard's Pipits Anthus novaeseelandiae and Tawny Pipits A. campestris (Williamson 1963) was prompted by the number of reports being received by the Rarities Committe...

Bird deaths from power lines at Dungeness

13 March 2014 Comments Main paper It has long been recognised that birds are killed or injured by flying into overhead wires, but the problem has received little in the way of detailed investigation. Although birds strike telephone wires, this paper is largely concerned with electrical tr...

Monthly Marathon

01 February 1996 Comments Other With Christmas and New Year postal delays still affecting incoming mail from overseas, even in mid January, we are extending the deadline for receipt of entries for the fourth stage of the current Marathon (December's plate 221). So far, seven species ...

Looking Back

01 February 1996 Comments Other Fifty years ago, a Note reported on: 'COMMON GULLS NESTING ON BIRCH TREES. In June, 1945, during a period of leave spent on Upper Deeside (Aberdeenshire), I noted on several occasions Common Gulls (Larus c. canus), perching on trees near the...

Field Identification of Little and Baillon's Crakes

01 February 1996 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The two small European crakes, Little Crake Porzana parva and Baillon's Crake P. pusilla, usually provide only fleeting views. It is, therefore, very important for observers to know and to concentrate instantly on the diagnostic features, whic...

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