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01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

01 November 2004 Comments Main paper This is the forty-sixth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee and it provides details of accepted records of rare birds in Britain in 2003, with some additional, outstanding records from earlier years. On average, we process about 1,000 re...

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01 August 1982 Comments Notes Nest-site provision experiment for Long-eared Owls To attempt to improve the breeding success of Long-eared Owls Asio otus, artificial nestsites were provided in an area where the owls were known to overwinter. The nests provided consisted of t...

Mystery photographs

01 August 1982 Comments Main paper The diffuse head markings on the gliding gull in last month's mystery photograph are clearly those of one of the hooded species in winter plumage. The massive Great Black-headed Gull Larus ichthyaetus is instantly ruled out at least by the much to...

Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1982 Comments Other 'EVERYONE who takes an interest in the birds of this country will have the greatest satisfaction in learning that the Ruff, so long lost to Norfolk as a breeding bird, has once more nested in the county.' (Brit, Birds 1: 65, August 1907) ...

Report on roving tit flocks project

01 August 1982 Comments Main paper From August 1980 to February 1981, following requests (Brit. Birds 73: 267; Bird Life July- August 1980: 40), information on the composition of flocks of tits Parus & Aegithalos was collected by readers of British Birds and members of the Young Orn...

Effect of disease on social hierarchy of young Oystercatchers

01 August 1982 Comments Main paper During a study of the population of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus on Skokholm Island, Dyfed (Safriel 1967), it was found that a clear-cut social hierarchy existed within each brood. The dominant young (the 'a' young) was always the first to obta...

The use of gull nests by Eiders

01 August 1982 Comments Main paper The eggs of Eiders Somateria mollissima have been seen in the nests of Herring Gulls Larus argentatus in several locations (Robertson 1930, Barker 1938, Gross 1938), but few details have been recorded. In recent years, gull nests containing both gull a...

Product reports

01 August 1982 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; wey are not the result of technical tests, but are assessments made after use in appropriate conditions (e....

Studies of west Palearctic birds. 184. Moustached Warbler

01 August 1982 Comments Main paper Unlike its western Palearctic congeners, the Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon is not a trans-Saharan migrant. This, however, ought not to be an adequate reason to give it a genus to itself, which it once had as Lusciniola melanopogon (Parker...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003

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Mystery photographs

Seventy-five years ago

Report on roving tit flocks project

Effect of disease on social hierarchy of young Oystercatchers

The use of gull nests by Eiders

Product reports

Studies of west Palearctic birds. 184. Moustached Warbler

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