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June 2021 – contents

Breeding Eurasian Spoonbills at Holkham NNR

Main paper 01 June 2021 Andrew Bloomfield

Breeding-range expansion of the Caspian Gull in Europe

Main paper 01 June 2021 Klaudia Litwiniak, Marcin Przymencki and Albert de Jong

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Hybrid Lady Amherst’s x Golden Pheasants

Letters 01 June 2021

Lunt Meadows

My patch 01 May 2021 Daniel Gornall

Recent reports

Recent Reports 01 May 2021

The Birds of Luxembourg

01 May 2021

Restoring the Wild: sixty years of rewilding our skies, woods and waterways

Reviews 01 May 2021

Robin Prytherch (1939–2021)

Open Access 01 May 2021

Alan Jameson Richards (1933–2021)

Obituaries 01 May 2021

Establishment of an advertising territory by a Whimbrel in central England

Notes 01 May 2021 Tim Marlow & Theo de Clermont

Wood Pigeon killing Eurasian Sparrowhawk

Notes 01 May 2021 Paul Grimmett

Young Cuckoo being fed with pieces of white bread

Notes 01 May 2021 Ann Mettam

Common Cuckoo parasitising Common Redstart nest in an occupied bedroom

Notes 01 May 2021 David H. Hatton

Common Swifts roosting in nestbox used by Common Starlings

Notes 01 May 2021 Treleven Haysom

Rarities Committee news

BBRC News 01 May 2021

Roger Riddington: an appreciation

Editorials 01 May 2021

News and comment

News and comment 01 May 2021

It was not DDT

Editorials 01 May 2021 Jeremy Greenwood

BB eye – Petrels by night

Editorials 01 April 2021

News and comment

News and comment 01 April 2021

Recent reports

Recent Reports 01 April 2021

What Is a Bird?: an exploration of anatomy, physiology, behavior and ecology

Reviews 01 April 2021

Flights of Passage: an illustrated natural history of bird migration

Reviews 01 April 2021

A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man. The Common Eider and Homo sapiens: fourteen centuries together

Reviews 01 April 2021

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June 2021 – contents

Breeding Eurasian Spoonbills at Holkham NNR

Breeding-range expansion of the Caspian Gull in Europe

Hybrid Lady Amherst’s x Golden Pheasants

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Lunt Meadows

Recent reports

The Birds of Luxembourg

Restoring the Wild: sixty years of rewilding our skies, woods and waterways

Robin Prytherch (1939–2021)

Alan Jameson Richards (1933–2021)

Establishment of an advertising territory by a Whimbrel in central England

Wood Pigeon killing Eurasian Sparrowhawk

Young Cuckoo being fed with pieces of white bread

Common Cuckoo parasitising Common Redstart nest in an occupied bedroom

Common Swifts roosting in nestbox used by Common Starlings

Rarities Committee news

Roger Riddington: an appreciation

News and comment

It was not DDT

BB eye – Petrels by night

News and comment

Recent reports

What Is a Bird?: an exploration of anatomy, physiology, behavior and ecology

Flights of Passage: an illustrated natural history of bird migration

A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man. The Common Eider and Homo sapiens: fourteen centuries together

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