Request and Announcement

01 February 1993 Comments Editorials Blue Tits and flowering currants. It has been known since 1917 that Blue Tits Parus caeruleus feed on the nectar of the flowering currant Ribes sanguineum, which flowers from February to April. The tit pecks a 1-mm to 2-mm oval hole in the ba...
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Announcements

01 April 1979 Comments Editorials 'Bird Illustrator of the Year* and 'The Richard Richardson Award' The closing date for entries for these competitions is 31st May 1979. Artists are invited to submit four line-drawings: full details were given in the January issue {Brit. Birds ...
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Requests

01 April 1979 Comments Editorials Survey of food washing and dunking by birds There are scattered records of birds of many orders dipping food into water. The functions probably extend beyond the role of food washing, and dunking to moisten, lubricate and soften the food may be...
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