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Bean Geese in the Yare Valley, Norfolk

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The only British wintering grounds for Bean Geese Anser fabalis of the western race fabalis to have been permanently occupied for many years lie in the Yare Valley, east Norfolk. The discovery of some individuals carrying coded ...

World status of the Red Kite

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper A background to the experimental reintroduction to England and Scotland In 1989, the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) started a joint experimental programme to re-establi...

Red-necked Grebe breeding in England

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena occurs widely in the Holarctic, breeding from Sweden, Finland and northern Russia, south into Denmark, Germany, the Balkans and the Ukraine, east to the Kirghiz Steppes, and then (as a much lar...

Mystery photographs

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Letters

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01 April 1962 Comments Notes Little Grebes attacking Moorhens.--With regard to the recent note by J. B. and S, Bottomley on Little Grebes {Podiceps ruficollis) attacking Coots (Fulica atra) and domestic ducks {Anas sp.) {Brit. Birds, 54: 427), it seems worth reporting that I saw seve...

Studies of less familiar birds 118. Rock Bunting and Rock Sparrow

01 April 1962 Comments Main paper country. T h e earliest record is of t w o netted by' bird-catchers in late October 1902 near Shoreham, Sussex, and these were followed by one seen at Faversham, Kent, in mid-February 1905; then, after aninterval of over fifty years without any report whi...

Radar evidence on migratory orientation

01 April 1962 Comments Main paper ing so rapidly that this may be a useful time at which to review evidence on the orientation of bird migrants over the sea provided by radar. This evidence requires local knowledge for its interpretation and, since even with local knowledge I have made mi...

River Warbler on Fair Isle: a bird new to Britain

01 April 1962 Comments Main paper A F I R S T - W I N T E R River Warbler (Locustel/a fluviatilis) was trapped at Fair Isle on 24th September 1961, and seen again on the following day. This is the first record of this east European species in the British Isles, although it breeds as ne...

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Bean Geese in the Yare Valley, Norfolk

World status of the Red Kite

Red-necked Grebe breeding in England

Mystery photographs

Notes

Letters

Notes

Studies of less familiar birds 118. Rock Bunting and Rock Sparrow

Radar evidence on migratory orientation

River Warbler on Fair Isle: a bird new to Britain

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