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Mystery photographs

01 March 1993 Comments Main paper On a sunny October morning, while searching for migrants on a scrub-covered coastal headland, a movement in a patch of bracken and bramble catches the eye. After skulking for a few minutes, the bird eventually hops on to an exposed perch, ruffles its p...

From the Rarities Committee's files: Arctic Redpolls in Kent

01 March 1993 Comments Main paper Arctic Redpolls in Kent. The following description was submitted to the Kent Ornithological Society on 24th March 1991, and passed to the Rarities Committee on 20th July 1991. The record was accepted, and published in October 1992 {Brit. Birds 85: 549)...

Product reports

01 March 1993 Comments Main paper Items included in this feature have been submitted by the manufacturers or their agents. The reviews are the personal opinions of the reviewers; they are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e...

The Hoopoe's spreadeagle posture: predator reaction or sunning?

01 March 1993 Comments Main paper Hoopoes Upupa epops sometimes use a remarkable posture which has been variously interpreted as an alarm, defensive or cryptic reaction to an overhead raptor and also as sunning. The posture is shown in an earlier photograph (Brit. Birds 83: plate 138) ...

Oriental Pratincole: new to the Western Palearctic

01 March 1993 Comments Main paper On Monday 22nd June 1981, while on a week's holiday, I was taking a walk along the coastal marshes from Dunwich to Walberswick, in Suffolk. I had gone only a few hundred metres when I stopped to scan the marshes behind me. In the far distance I picked ...

History of Black-headed Gull colonies in Hampshire and neighbouring counties

01 March 1993 Comments Main paper With the exception of a pre-1650 colony in Portsmouth Harbour, Hampshire, Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus first bred in the area of Hampshire and adjacent coastal counties at Rempstone Heath, Poole Harbour, Dorset, in 1884, in Newtown Harbour, Isle...

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