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Female Great Tit singing while male removed for ringing

01 December 2023 Comments Notes On 31st January 2019, I was catching birds for ringing using a 6-m mist net in a suburban garden in Liverpool, Lancashire & North Merseyside. The catch rate was low, with just one or two birds being caught in the net at any given time. At one point...

Removal of nest material from a Great Tit nest in a nestbox

01 February 2022 Comments Notes ...

Blue and Great Tits feeding Great Spotted Woodpecker nestlings

01 December 2021 Comments Notes ...

Bird photography: more than just a pretty picture

01 October 2021 Comments Editorials ...

Long-tailed Tits helping at a Great Tit nest

01 August 2021 Comments Notes ...

Hybrid Great Tit x Blue Tit

01 April 2021 Comments Notes On 2nd February 2019, CE was mist-netting at a garden feeder near Hexham, in Northumberland, at a site where he has trapped in excess of 20,000 Great Tits Parus major and Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus (approximate ratio 1:2) since 1985. A...

Interaction between Long-tailed Tits and Blue Tits at a nest site

01 January 2021 Comments Notes ...

Blue Tit feeding a Great Tit brood

01 March 2020 Comments Notes ...

Conservation research news

01 February 2004 Comments News and comment The conflict between raptor conservation and the maintenance of high densities of grouse for shooting interests has often led to the suggestion that illegal use of poisoned baits to control predators is more likely to occur on grouse moors than in othe...

Notes

01 March 1989 Comments Notes Little Grebe apparently imprinted upon female Mallard On 16th, 17th and 19th September 1986, at Marshside lagoons, Southport, Lancashire, I watched a juvenile Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis constantly accompanying a female Mallard Anas platyrhynchos....