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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 ...

Notes

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 ...

Reviews

01 April 1952 Comments Reviews Proceedings of the Xth International Ornithological Congress, Uppsala, June, 1950. "(Almquist & Wicksell, Uppsala, Sweden, 1952. Price Sw. Kr. 35, or £2 8s. 3d. Obtainable direct from Prof. S. Horstadius, Zoologiska Institutionen, Uppsala). T H I S ...

Notes

01 April 1952 Comments Notes Song-Thrush nesting in a Monkey-Puzzle Tree.--In connexion with the note (antea, p . 287) on a Mistle-Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) nesting in a Monkey Puzzle tree, it may be of interest to record that on May 6th, 1946, at Oxted, Surrey, I found a nest of a...

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XXXVIII. The Redwing, Fieldfare

01 April 1952 Comments Main paper (Plates 29-36). APART from the Brambling {Fringilla montifringilla), of which we have already published a series of plates (vol. xliv, Plates 1-7), the Redwing (Turdus musicus) and Fieldfare (T. pilaris) are the only two passerines which winter in numbers...

Little Auks in Britain, 1948 to 1951

01 April 1952 Comments Main paper IN the two winters 1948-9 and 1949-50 an unusual number of Little Auks (A lie alle) visited the British Isles. Most noteworthy was a "wreck" (i.e., a widespread destruction of the species on land) in mid-February, 1950, probably the most extensive in the ...

Notes and display of the Magpie

01 April 1952 Comments Main paper (with text illustrations by R. GILLMOR). IN July, 1949,1 acquired a juvenile female Magpie (Pica pica) which was fixated on human beings and when adult regarded me as her mate. This bird's behaviour inspired closer observation of wild Magpies for comparat...

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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

Reviews

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed. XXXVIII. The Redwing, Fieldfare

Little Auks in Britain, 1948 to 1951

Notes and display of the Magpie

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