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Adult ‘American Black Tern’ summering in Northumberland

01 March 2023 Comments ...

Rethinking bird feeding

01 January 2022 Comments BB eye ...

Bird photography: more than just a pretty picture

01 October 2021 Comments Editorials ...

Probable Black Tern x White-winged Black Tern hybrid

01 June 2021 Comments Notes ...

The ecology and conservation of the Marsh Tit in Britain

09 January 2015 Comments Main paper By Richard Broughton and Shelley Hinsley Abstract The Marsh Tit Poecile palustris is one of several British woodland birds to have suffered a serious population decline in recent decades. Its abundance has falle...

Notes

01 January 2011 Comments Notes In mid November 2009, an unfamiliar marsh tern appeared at Al Wathba Lake, some 40 km east of Abu Dhabi, UAE. Among some 40 Whiskered Chlidonias hybrida and two White-winged Black Terns C. leucopterus, it was distinctly darker and appeared superfi- cially...

DNA analysis of a juvenile Common Snipe on Corvo, Azores

01 March 2010 Comments Main paper The Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago is a rare breeding bird in the Azores archipelago, where breeding occurs in the moist, elevated plains and moors of the islands of SaÃÆo Miguel, Terceira, SaÃÆo Jorge, Pico, Faial, Flores and Corvo. Recent ...

Letters

01 February 2010 Comments Letters The recent paper by Richard Broughton (Brit. Birds 102: 604-616) summarised a welcome analysis of the relative importance of the various criteria used to separate Willow Poecile montana and Marsh Tits P. palustris. We consider, however, that the con- clus...

Separation of Willow Tit and Marsh Tit in Britain: a review

16 November 2009 Comments Main paper These sound files accompany a paper on the separation of Willow and Marsh Tits, published in BB in November 2009: ...

Identification of Wilson’s and Common Snipe

01 April 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT In recent years, the occurrence in Europe of Common Snipes Gallinago gallinago showing characters associated with the North American race G. g. delicata – notably on Scilly – has ...