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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...

Raptor migration across the Strait of Messina, southern Italy

01 April 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The Strait of Messina, at the foot of Italy, is a major migration flyway for many raptors and other species, yet very little has been published on the numbers of birds passing through the area each year.The results of spring counts over the fi...

Looking back

01 April 2001 Comments Other Fifty years ago: `LARGE NUMBERS OF BLACKTAILED GODWITS IN HANTS. – With reference to the note [Brit. Birds 43: 128] on large numbers of Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa) at Poole Harbour, Dorset, in March and April, 1949, Dr. C. Suffern writes t...

Historical and taxonomic review of the Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides complex

01 April 2001 Comments Main paper The Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides is now generally regarded as comprising three subspecies: L. g. glaucoides, which breeds in Greenland, L. g. kumlieni (`Kumlien's Gull'), which breeds mostly on Baffin Island, and L. g. t...

Identification and taxonomy of Marmora's Warblers

01 April 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A major new book on the warblers of the genus Sylvia (Shirihai et al. 2001) will treat the taxonomy and identification of this intriguing group of passerines in greater depth than has ever been attempted before. Here, we present a sho...

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