Notes

01 November 2004
Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...
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Reviews

01 April 2004
Comments Reviews The Birds of the Isles of ScillyNorwegian Bird Ringing AtlasField Guide to the Birds of the West IndiesField guide to the Birds of ChileWildlife Walks: great days out at over 500 of the UK’s top nature reservesBTO/C...
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Looking back

01 April 2004
Comments Other `Semi-palmated Sandpiper in Norfolk.­­ On July 19th, 1953, an unusual wader was observed on Arnold's Marsh, Cley, Norfolk, by P. R. Clarke, who pointed it out to P. D. Kirky, and R. A. Richardson. It was subsequently watched for some hours at a f...
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Notes

01 April 2004
Comments Notes Little Grebes feeding in association with scuba diversMoorhen interspecific brood parasitismCanabalistic foraging by Common CootsNorthern Lapwing in aberrant plumageRecord numbers of wintering Richard’s Pipits in the Weste...
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Looking back

01 April 2004
Comments Other `TURTLE-DOVE BREEDING IN W. MERIONETH. S INCE publishing my Vert. Fauna N. Wales, I have obtained evidence that –­ as I then foretold –­ the Turtle-Dove (Streptopelia t. turtur) is gradually extending its range westwards. Still, all records up to...
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Conservation research news

01 April 2004
Comments News and comment Increasing populations of Red Kite Milvus milvus, Corn Crake Crex crex and Cirl Bunting Emberiza cirlus within the United Kingdom are rightly seen as conservation success stories, but unfortunately other species are not faring so well. Declining farmla...
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Looking back

01 April 2004
Comments Other `GARGANEY IN SUSSEX IN WINTER. WHILE on the shore at Glyne Gap, between Bexhill and West St. Leonards, on February 3rd, 1929, a friend of mine, Mr. Barlow, found the remains of a small duck that had been badly mauled by Gulls, and the wing of a second....
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