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Common Eider nesting on harbour ledge in Kirkcaldy

01 April 2021 Comments Notes On 14th May 2020, William Dickson told me about a Common Eider Somateria mollissima sitting on a nest on the harbour wall at Kirkcaldy, Fife. The nest was situated on the only patch of vegetation along the entire harbour ledge. On 25th May the b...

A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man

01 April 2021 Comments Reviews A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man. The Common Eider and Homo sapiens: fourteen centuries togetherBy Alexandra Goryashko...

A ‘Grey-bellied Brant’ in Norfolk

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Arctic Skuas caring for Common Eider duckling

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Letter

01 April 2009 Comments Letters Black Brants and the problem of intergrades The curious case of the disappearing storm-petrel ...

Notes

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Further developments in 'Black Brant' identification, including the effects of body moult on the wintering grounds

01 June 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT In recent winters, several examples of apparent intergrades between dark-bellied Brent Geese Branta bernicla bernicla and `Black Brants' B. b. nigricans have been documented in Britain and elsewhere in Europe. A bird in Norfo...

Conservation research news

01 May 2003 Comments News and comment The Dutch Wadden Sea is of international importance for Common Eiders Somateria mollissima, with between 102,000 and 173,000 individuals spending the winter there. In the winter of 1999/2000, beached bird surveys detected a mass mortality even...

Letters

01 September 2002 Comments Letters While it came as no great surprise to the observers of the `Dungeness petrel' (Brit. Birds 95: 156-165) that the record was rejected, this feeling merely reflects what we take to be a widespread view among observers: that the BBRC finds it very difficu...