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13 March 2014 Comments Notes Two pairs of Kestrels nesting on one electricity pylon On 15 th April 1971, in an area of reinstated opencast land at Staveley, Derbyshire, loud trilling calls drew my attention to four Kestrels Falco tinnunculus on an electricity pylon. There were two ol...

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01 February 1968 Comments Letters Width of tail-band of immature Mediterranean Gulls Sirs,--As the plumage of immature Mediterranean Gulls Larus melanocephalus was described in some detail by P. J. Grant and R. E. Scott (Brit. Birds, 60: 365-368), it seems a pity that they did not mention...

Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent and the problem of identification

01 December 1966 Comments Main paper T H E SMALL American Calidris -waders are notoriously difficult to identify, particularly by anyone lacking in experience of the group (see, for example, Nisbet 1963 and Marchant 1963). Between 6th and 9th September 1965, what eventually proved to be a Se...

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Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent and the problem of identification

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