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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...

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...

Notes

01 January 2000 Comments Notes ...

Changes in numbers of Common Starlings and farming practice in Lincolnshire

01 May 1994 Comments Main paper ...

Fifty Years ago

01 November 1979 Comments Other From 'THE BEHAVIOUR OF STARLINGS IN WINTER' by V. C. Wynne-Edwards: 'It is recommended that no steps be taken to destroy Starlings wholesale by poison gas or other efficient means before their local economic status is properly examined . . Ow...