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British Birds – January 2009

01 January 2009 Comments Latest issues ...

Editorial

01 January 2009 Comments Editorials ...

Climate change: a Swallow’s eye view

01 January 2009 Comments Main paper ...

The Cape Verde Warbler: distribution, density, habitat and breeding biology on the island of Fogo

01 January 2009 Comments Main paper ...

Letters

01 January 2009 Comments Letters ...

Notes

01 January 2009 Comments Notes Hybrid Aythya showing features of Redhead Difference in shape of bill-base feathering between Common and Black Scoters in non-adult-male plumage Identification of Citrine and Yellow Wagtails – a possible identificat...

Notes

01 January 1948 Comments Notes WITH reference to my note (antea, Vol. xl, p. 209) concerning the large gathering of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in Carmarthenshire in March, 1946, I was interested to read Mr. Cadman's note which immediately followed my own. In reply to Mr. Cadman's query ...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XII. The Bee-eater

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper the most exotic-looking of European birds, the Bee-eater (Merofis afiaster) is in fact a representative of a group mainly confined to the tropical regions of the Old World. So far as the western portion of its range is concerned it is a characteristically...

The breeding of Avocets in England in 1947

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper (Plates 1-3.) the summer of 1947 two small colonies of Avocets (Recurvirostra avosetta) established themselves in East Anglia. Apart from the isolated instance of two pairs nesting in Ireland in 1938 (Handbook of British Birds, Vol. iv, p. 411), this woul...

The mating ceremonial of some Doves

01 January 1948 Comments Main paper THE Handbook does not describe the coitional ceremony of the Turtle-Dove {Streptopelia t. turtur) and dismisses that of the StockDove (Columba cenas) and Rock-Dove (C. /. livid) as similar to that of the Wood-Pigeon (C. p. palnmbus). It is true that in th...

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British Birds – January 2009

Editorial

Climate change: a Swallow’s eye view

The Cape Verde Warbler: distribution, density, habitat and breeding biology on the island of Fogo

Letters

Notes

Notes

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XII. The Bee-eater

The breeding of Avocets in England in 1947

The mating ceremonial of some Doves

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