Notes

01 September 1998
Comments Notes The northeast Algerian breeding population of White Storks Ciconia ciconia normally leaves for sub-Saharan winter quarters in July and August, at the time when other long-legged marshbirds arrive to winter alongside the large resident population of Cat...
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Mystery Photographs

01 April 1998
Comments Main paper "Mixed flocks of Dalmatian Pelicans Pelecanus crispus and White Pelicans P. onocrotalus do occur, but the two are most often seen separately, and a typical view is of a small party of one or the other species in flight overhead. Mystery photograph A, t...
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Mystery Photographs

01 March 1998
Comments Main paper When Britain and Ireland's first Ring-billed Gull Lams delawarensis was discovered in Glamorgan in March 1973, there were already over 60 North American species on the British & Irish List. By January 1988, however, Ring-billed Gull had become our ...
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Notes

01 December 1997
Comments Notes With reference to Philip Palmer's note and photograph (Brit. Birds 86: 627, plate 231), it is not unusual for Whimbrels Numenius phaeopus to perch on overhead wires in The Gambia. Others and I have observed this and, indeed, one birdwatcher born and br...
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Mystery Photographs

01 December 1997
Comments Main paper American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus is less-common and less-migratory than Eurasian Oystercatcher H. ostralegus. Though its breeding range includes the eastern seaboard of the USA, from Florida north to New England, the species has yet to be re...
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Notes

01 September 1997
Comments Notes The 'Notes' section of British Birds has a history as long as that of the journal itself, providing the opportunity for mostly amateur birdwatchers--as well as the professionals--to record their observations for posterity. For many, this will be the fi...
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Mystery Photographs

01 July 1997
Comments Main paper Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus breeds in eastern Siberia, Alaska and Canada and winters from Nicaragua south to northern Peru and northern Brazil. Swainson's Thrash C. ustulatus breeds in Canada and the USA and winters from central Mexico so...
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Notes

01 May 1997
Comments Notes At 08.21 GMT on 13th October 1989, in the Valle del Palmar (Buenavista), northwestern Tenerife, Canary Islands, I saw a male Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus and a female Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus perched less than 40 cm apart on two adjacen...
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Mystery Photographs

01 May 1997
Comments Main paper Two small, dark swifts with white rumps are found in the Western Palearctic: Little Swift Apus affinis, which, though recorded in Britain and Ireland on ten occasions up to the end of 1994, breeds no nearer than Northwest Africa, and White-rumped ...
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