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Female Great Tit singing while male removed for ringing

01 December 2023 Comments Notes On 31st January 2019, I was catching birds for ringing using a 6-m mist net in a suburban garden in Liverpool, Lancashire & North Merseyside. The catch rate was low, with just one or two birds being caught in the net at any given time. At one point...

Removal of nest material from a Great Tit nest in a nestbox

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Blue and Great Tits feeding Great Spotted Woodpecker nestlings

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Long-tailed Tits helping at a Great Tit nest

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Hybrid Great Tit x Blue Tit

01 April 2021 Comments Notes On 2nd February 2019, CE was mist-netting at a garden feeder near Hexham, in Northumberland, at a site where he has trapped in excess of 20,000 Great Tits Parus major and Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus (approximate ratio 1:2) since 1985. A...

Blue Tit feeding a Great Tit brood

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Announcement

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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01 February 2001 Comments Notes At 17.45 hours on 20th March 1995, at East Hyde on the River Lea, 3.2 km north of Batford, Hertfordshire, I observed an immature Grey Heron Ardea cinerea perched on a branch of an Alder Alnus glutinosa, the only tree along that stretch of the river. Ow...

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...