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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...

Mortality of Adult and Young Mallards

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper A RECENT examination of the recovery data of Mallards (Anas p. platyrhyncha) ringed under the British Birds marking scheme, from its inception up to 1946, yielded no information as regards migration which was in any way additional to the excellent summary...

Tits and Peanuts

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper DURING the hard weather in February, 1947, my wife and 1 found a small cache of peanuts, preserved in the house since 1939, when we had been in the habit of stringing these together and hanging them up for the tits. On February 12th, therefore, I hung up...

"Plover's Page" Behaviour of Dunlin

01 August 1948 Comments Main paper O N May 3rd, 1931, a sunny day with a fresh N . W . wind, I was on the sea-wall between Marshside and Crossens, on the south side of the Ribble Estuary. On rough pastureland behind the sea-wall a flock of fully 500 Golden Plovers (Pluvialis a. apricaria)...