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Foraging activity and habitat use by European Nightjars in South Wales

01 July 2014 Comments Main paper Paddy Jenks, Mick Green and Tony Cross Abstract Foraging activity and habitat use by European Nightjars Caprimulgus europaeus were measured during a radio-tracking study in coniferous forest in S...

The review of the record of Slender-billed Curlew at Druridge Bay, Northumberland

01 July 2014 Comments BOURC J. Martin Collinson, Adam Rowlands, Jimmy G. Steele, Christopher J. McInerny and Nigel Hudson, on behalf of BOURC and BBRCAbstract The record of a Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris&n...

BB eye – In memoriam

01 July 2014 Comments Editorials One hundred years ago this month Europe entered a war that was to kill millions. Men from all walks of life, including birdwatchers and ornithologists, volunteered or were called to fight for their country and many died. Derek Niemann (Birds in a C...

News & Comment

01 July 2014 Comments News and comment Compiled by Adrian Pitches Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of British Birds. ...

‘Asian Red-rumped Swallow’ in Orkney and Highland: new to Britain

01 July 2014 Comments Open Access Abstract ...

Assessing and recording Subalpine Warblers

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Notes

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Recent reports

01 July 2014 Comments Recent Reports This summary of unchecked reports covers the period from early May to early June 2014. ...

Irish seabird islands

01 February 1980 Comments Main paper Although Ireland is not large in area, the mainland and associated islands have a coastline of over 4,000 km. There are just over 1,000 islands of a significant size (i.e. large enough to appear on the standard 1:126,720 Ordnance Survey maps in us...

Ireland's winter visitors and passage migrants

01 February 1980 Comments Main paper As a result of the small size of the country, its position on the western fringe of the European land-mass, its relatively uniform climate and the scarcity of deciduous woodland, Ireland's breeding avifauna is comparatively impoverished. A glance at Th...

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