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Song Thrush attempting to feed and brood Spotted Flycatcher nestlings

01 December 2021 Comments Notes ...

Unusual feeding behaviour by Song Thrush and Blackbird at a garden pond

01 May 2020 Comments Notes ...

Song Thrush eating fallen petals of Bloody Crane’s-bill

01 May 2020 Comments Notes ...

Carrion Crows killing juvenile Black-headed Gull

01 April 2020 Comments Notes ...

Monthly marathon

01 May 2006 Comments Other ...

Little Gulls at sea off Yorkshire in autumn 2003

01 September 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT During autumn 2003, record numbers of Little Gulls Larus minutus were present off the Yorkshire coast.This paper estimates the extent of this gathering and describes the birds' behaviour, based on observations from both sea and land.The context o...

Song and territories of Song Thrushes in a Buckinghamshire village: a ten-year study

01 March 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A long-term census of Song Thrushes Turdus philomelos was carried out in a Buckinghamshire village. Detailed records were kept of song, which began in late October or the first half of November and continued, with breaks caused by col...

Notes

01 September 2001 Comments Notes It is well known that a staple component in the diet of European Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus is social wasps (Vespidae), in particular their pupae and larvae... ...

Adult Little Gulls summering in Britain, 1975-97 with comments on the likelihood of an expansion of the breeding range

01 July 2001 Comments Main paper Small numbers of adult Little Gulls Larus minutus regularly spend the summer in Britain. During the period 1975-97 there was no increase in these numbers, with an average of 5.2 summering adults recorded each year; four confirmed breeding atte...

Monthly marathon

01 January 2001 Comments Other Bearing in mind some of the more extraordinar y guesses submitted for previous photographs in this Monthly Marathon series, such as a Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys sanguinea that, to one contestant, looked like a Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata, it i...