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Wood Pigeon killing Eurasian Sparrowhawk

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Highlights from a long-term study of Sparrowhawks

01 November 2008 Comments ABSTRACT The numbers of Eurasian Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus that breed in any landscape depend primarily on the amount of woodland, but within that woodland breeding densities vary with the prey supply. In continuous woodland, pairs space th...

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01 October 2001 Comments Editorials Thanks to the generosity of well-known artist and staunch BB-supporter Ian Wallace, BB is delighted to offer its subscribers the opportunity to purchase this fantastic DIMW original, featuring European Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria and No...

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Roof assemblies of lapwings and plovers in Britain

01 January 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The use of the large roof areas of commercial and industrial premises for daytime roosting by Northern Lapwings Vanellus vanellus and European Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria is a relatively new phenomenon, confined mostly...

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The return of the Sparrowhawk

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Fifty years ago

01 June 1980 Comments Other 'ROOKS COLLECTING RUBBER OBJECTS. The Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) of Wanstead Park have a strange custom which may not have been brought before the notice of readers of British Birds. For more than twenty years they have been in the habit of collectin...

Interactions between House Sparrows and Sparrowhawks

01 December 1979 Comments Main paper Recent work on the development of feeding skills by young birds has highlighted the fact that many are less successful than adults at capturing prey (e.g. Orians 1969; Buckley & Buckley 1974). Young Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus, for example...