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01 March 2006 Comments Notes All Notes submitted to British Birds are subject to independent review, either by the Notes Panel or by the BB Editorial Board.Those considered appropriate for BB will be published either here or on our website (www.britishbirds.co.uk) subject to the a...

Letters

01 March 2006 Comments Letters When Garner (2005) reviewed the `Fair Isle sandpiper' (FIS), his reasoning that the bird was not a Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri seemed compelling. It is not possible for statistics to prove that the bird was one species or another, since it deals o...

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...

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 2: Short-toed Lark to Little Bunting

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper This is the second part of this, the ninth, annual Scarce Migrants report, which covers the passerine species from Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla to Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla. Part 1 of the report, which dealt with non-passerines, has ...

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 ...

British Birds – March 2006

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01 February 1965 Comments News and comment (These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is concerned with the two months from late November to late January. It thus follows on after those in the December and January issues {Brit. Birds, 57: 523-524; 58: 31-32) and ...

News and Comment

01 February 1965 Comments News and comment Ten years of ' T h e Ring'--The King, a journal devoted to the broad international aspects of bird-ringing, recently had its tenth anniversary. The first edition of this quarterly, -which is edited by Dr. W, Rydzcwski and published by the Polish Zoologica...

Request for information

01 February 1965 Comments Editorials Past breeding success of Golden Eagles in Scotland.--In view of the disquieting report by Dr. J. D. Lockic and Dr. D. A. Ratcliffe of a marked decline in the nesting success of Golden Eagles Aquih chrysaefos in a part of western Scotland (Brii. Birds, 57:...

Notes

01 February 1965 Comments Notes Unusual numbers of Sooty Shearwaters in the eastern English Channel.--A substantial passage of Sooty Shearwaters Procellaria griseusflyingwestwards down the English Channel was observed at Cap Gris Nez, Pas de Calais, France, at the time of a westerly gal...

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Seabirds and pipefish: A request for records

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 2: Short-toed Lark to Little Bunting

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

British Birds – March 2006

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