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Mystery photographs

01 February 1982 Comments Main paper The grass provides scale, and last month's mystery bird is clearly a largish warbler. The first step in narrowing the identification further should be to determine the genus. The bill is not particularly long nor obviously wide-based, so thou...

Timing of bathing, dusting and sunning

01 February 1982 Comments Main paper This study developed from examination of variations between bird species in their bathing habits, fluctuating with season, time of day and weather. As work progressed, the incidence of dusting, and later of sunning, was included in an attempt to discov...

Woodpigeons and Black Kites nesting in close proximity

01 February 1982 Comments Main paper In May and June 1972, we investigated some factors we considered would be associated with nest-site choice by Woodpigeons Columba palumbus and Black Kites Milvus migrans nesting close to each other in a wood of stone pines Pinus pinea in the Coto Doña...

Forster's Tern: new to Britain and Ireland

01 February 1982 Comments Main paper At about 12.00 GMT on 29th January 1980, I was surprised to notice a tern feeding well offshore in the bay at Swanpool, Falmouth, Cornwall. Its lean proportions and plunge-diving habits recalled a Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis, but after ...

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Letter

01 April 1981 Comments Letters Tail shape of Bulwer's Petrel M. R. Alibone commented on the apparent lack of wedge shape to the tail of Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii {Brit, Birds 73: 217). In April 1971, I saw several Bulwer's Petrels off the bulge of Africa in the vicin...

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