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A ‘Grey-bellied Brant’ in Norfolk

01 September 2020 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

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Letter

01 April 2009 Comments Letters Black Brants and the problem of intergrades The curious case of the disappearing storm-petrel ...

Further developments in 'Black Brant' identification, including the effects of body moult on the wintering grounds

01 June 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT In recent winters, several examples of apparent intergrades between dark-bellied Brent Geese Branta bernicla bernicla and `Black Brants' B. b. nigricans have been documented in Britain and elsewhere in Europe. A bird in Norfo...

Letters

01 September 2002 Comments Letters While it came as no great surprise to the observers of the `Dungeness petrel' (Brit. Birds 95: 156-165) that the record was rejected, this feeling merely reflects what we take to be a widespread view among observers: that the BBRC finds it very difficu...

Unusual Brent Geese in Norfolk and Hampshire

01 March 2002 Comments Main paper Two unusual Brent Geese Branta bernicla, seen in winter in Norfolk and Hampshire, are discussed in this paper.They appeared superficially similar to the North American and east Siberian race nigricans (‘Black Brant’), but a number of ...

Letters

01 February 2000 Comments Letters Syroechkovski et al. (1998) have recently published the results of a study of Brent Geese Branta bernicla in northwest Yakutia, Russia. They claimed to have located a previously unknown contact zone of Dark-bellied Brent Goose Branta (b.) bernicla and ...

Status of Brent Goose In Northwest Yakutia, East Siberia

01 December 1998 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT During June-July 1997, five colonies of Brent Geese Branta bernicla were visited in northwest Yakutia, East Siberia: three (total about 132 pairs) in the Olenyok delta and two (22 pairs) in the western Lena delta. Colonies varied in size from ...

Seventy-Five years ago

01 July 1987 Comments Other 'LITTLE OWLS BREEDING IN ESSEX. THE first I heard of the Little Owl (Athene n. noctua) in the neighbourhood of Felsted, was from Mr. Hughes-Hughes, of Leez Priory, who had been brought a specimen for identification at the end of 1909 by the bailiff on ...