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News and comment – June 2021

01 June 2021 Comments News and comment ...

Common Cuckoo parasitising Common Redstart nest in an occupied bedroom

01 May 2021 Comments Notes ...

Young Cuckoo being fed with pieces of white bread

01 May 2021 Comments Notes ...

Satellite-tagged Cuckoos - BB is moving north once more

31 January 2014 Comments News and comment BB has begun the first stage of his journey, having moved 250km (155 miles) northwards within Co...

Notes

01 November 2005 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...

Conservation research news

01 February 2004 Comments News and comment The conflict between raptor conservation and the maintenance of high densities of grouse for shooting interests has often led to the suggestion that illegal use of poisoned baits to control predators is more likely to occur on grouse moors than in othe...

Letters

01 November 2002 Comments Letters Does holotype 'priority' always serve nomenclature? The molecular phylogeny of thrushes The call of Common Cuckoo Hawfinches in Wiltshire ...

The Bernard Tucker memorial lecture

01 March 2002 Comments Main paper Cuckoo tricks with eggs and chicks ...

Cuckoo tricks with eggs and chicks

01 March 2002 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The sight of a small bird feeding a young Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus, even as the cuckoo grows to ten times its own body weight, is astonishing.Why are the hosts apparently being so stupid? Do they accept cuckoo eggs and chick...

Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1990 Comments Other 'CUCKOO' S METHOD OF DEPOSITING EGG. On May 19th, 1915,I visited an old friend of mine in Norfolk. He leads a very secluded life but is a keen observer of natural history and a man whose word one can trust implicitly. There are some ...