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House Martin rump colour

01 February 2023 Comments Short paper ...

House Martins around flowering Mango trees

01 January 2022 Comments Notes ...

Juvenile House Martin apparently assisting with incubation of second brood

01 August 2021 Comments Notes ...

The identification, taxonomy and distribution of Western, Siberian and Asian House Martins

01 February 2021 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

01 July 2008 Comments Notes All Notes submitted to British Birds are subject to independent review, either by the Notes Panel or by the BB Editorial Board.Those considered appropriate for BB will be published either here or on our website (www.britishbirds.co.uk) subject to the a...

Notes

01 March 2005 Comments Notes Little Grebe swallowing small mammal Cream-coloured Courser showing feeding attachement to desert road Exceptional numbers of Oriental Plovers in southern Siberia in 2003 Ruffs feeding on contents of Giraffe's stomach Ta...

Homes for birds: the use of houses for nesting by birds in the UK

01 November 2002 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A joint survey, by RSPB and the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme, investigated the use of houses for nesting by four bird species (Common Swift Apus apus, House Martin Delichon urbica, Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris ...

Letters

01 December 2001 Comments Letters When watching House Martins Delichon urbica in 1967, I wrote in my notebook: `Is the mud for the structure of their nests carried on, rather than in, their beaks?'. My impression then was that the birds carried up the mud on the beak, and pressed it in...

Monthly marathon

01 December 2000 Comments Other It's a Ruff Philomachus pugnax, isn't it? October's Monthly Marathon picture (plate 300, repeated here as plate 363) is one that I expect many people will have recognised instantly without necessarily being able to put their finger on exactly ...