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01 November 2003 Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...

Reviews

01 November 2003 Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2002

01 November 2003 Comments Main paper This is the forty-fifth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of the records which have been assessed by BBRC for the year 2002, along with additional, outstanding records from previous years. To enhance the over...

British Birds – November 2003

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Letters

01 January 1947 Comments Letters SIRS.--dingers who t r a p adult or first-winter Starlings during January t o March would serve a very useful purpose by noting whether t h e eye is entirely dark or has a narrow light ring, and t h e Â« x t e n t t o which t h e bill has begun t o turn...

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01 January 1947 Comments Reviews The Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist: Notes on the Local Fauna and Flora for 1945. By N. F . Ticehurst (Recorder). T H I S interesting area again produces a number of noteworthy records. The chief ornithological event mentioned is the breeding of Black...

Notes

01 January 1947 Comments Notes As INSTANCES of "injury-feigning" on the part of the Meadow-Pipit (Anthus pratensis) are rare the following may be worth recording. On June 15th, 1946, in Co. Kerry, I disturbed a Meadow-Pipit from its nest, which contained five eggs. The bird flew a dis...

Aggressive display of the Ringed Plover

01 January 1947 Comments Main paper THIS account, and the accompanying photographs, are the result of an investigation into the aggressive displays of the Ringed Plover (Charadrius h. hiaticula). The displays were evoked by means of a stuffed specimen of a Ringed Plover, and by the use of a...

Observations on the Territory and breeding behaviour of the Willow-Warbler

01 January 1947 Comments Main paper DURING the spring and summer of 1944 I spent some time in making a preliminary study of the Willow-Warbler (Phylloscopus t. trochilus), following this in 1945 by a more detailed investigation. It is chiefly on the latter that the present paper is based, ...

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Aggressive display of the Ringed Plover

Observations on the Territory and breeding behaviour of the Willow-Warbler

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