Ospreys 

01 November 2019
Comments Reviews By Tim Mackrill Bloomsbury, 2019 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series) Sbk, 128pp; many colour photographs ISBN 978-1-4729-5603-3; £12.99 It’s always nice to have a choice and for all but the most devoted of Osprey afi...
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Woodpeckers 

01 November 2019
Comments Reviews By Gerard Gorman Bloomsbury, 2018 (‘RSPB Spotlight’ series) Pbk, 128pp; many colour photographs ISBN 978-1-4729-5118-2; £9.99  The ‘RSPB Spotlight’ series is shining its bright, if rather narrow, bea...
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Mystery Photographs

01 April 1998
Comments Main paper "Mixed flocks of Dalmatian Pelicans Pelecanus crispus and White Pelicans P. onocrotalus do occur, but the two are most often seen separately, and a typical view is of a small party of one or the other species in flight overhead. Mystery photograph A, t...
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Mystery Photographs

01 March 1998
Comments Main paper When Britain and Ireland's first Ring-billed Gull Lams delawarensis was discovered in Glamorgan in March 1973, there were already over 60 North American species on the British & Irish List. By January 1988, however, Ring-billed Gull had become our ...
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Mystery Photographs

01 December 1997
Comments Main paper American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus is less-common and less-migratory than Eurasian Oystercatcher H. ostralegus. Though its breeding range includes the eastern seaboard of the USA, from Florida north to New England, the species has yet to be re...
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Mystery Photographs

01 July 1997
Comments Main paper Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus breeds in eastern Siberia, Alaska and Canada and winters from Nicaragua south to northern Peru and northern Brazil. Swainson's Thrash C. ustulatus breeds in Canada and the USA and winters from central Mexico so...
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