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The changing status of Balearic Shearwater in northwest European waters

01 July 2007 Comments Main paper ...

Review of British status and identification of Greenish Warbler

01 September 1985 Comments Main paper The traditional view, that a Phylloscopus warbler in Britain which displayed a single wing-bar must be either an Arctic Warbler P. borealis or a Greenish Warbler P. trochiloides, has received support in all but the most recent identification literature...

Mystery photographs

01 September 1985 Comments Main paper The Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus (left) and the other Acrocephalus warbler (right) in last month's mystery photograph (plate 183, repeated here as 206) both show pale tips and fringes totheir flight feathers, and unabraded tail feathers. Th...

Spring migration 1985

01 September 1985 Comments Main paper This spring saw the tenth 'phone-in' survey of migrant arrivals run by the Young Ornithologists' Club, the junior section of the RSPB, This annual survey started in a small way in 1976 and has become progressively more sophisticated. This year, YOC mem...

Plumage, age and moult terminology

01 September 1985 Comments Main paper The ability to tell the age of a bird by its plumage and other features is, in itself, an interesting and challenging part of identification. Also, for some difficult-to-identify species, it is often an essential starting point in the identification pr...

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