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Seabirds and pipefish: A request for records

01 March 2006 Comments Editorials Seabirds in the northeast Atlantic usually feed their chicks on small, oil-rich shoaling fish such as sandeels Ammodytes marinus, sprats Sprattus sprattus, herring Clupea harengus and capelin Mallotus villosus. Although many other fish species have bee... Read More

Has the juvenile plumage of Honey-buzzard evolved to mimic that of Common Buzzard?

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Juvenile Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus exhibit a striking resemblance to Common Buzzards Buteo buteo, even though the two species are not closely related. Both species, but particularly Honey-buzzards, rather frequently fall prey to Northern ... Read More

Field notes on the nesting habits of the Great Northern Diver

01 January 1950 Comments Main paper (Plates 1--9). THE following notes on the Great Northern Diver (Colymbus immer) were made chiefly at a nest on the great lake of Thingvallavatn in South-west Iceland during June, 1949. They are supplemented by field notes made during the previous June in ... Read More

Letters

01 January 1950 Comments Letters SIRS,--I have delayed answering the letter on the above subject from Mr. P. H. T. Hartley (British Birds, xli, pp. 254-255) because the data then available only served to justify his remark that " more investigation is needed." I examined the two sets of ... Read More