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01 June 1990 Comments Notes Alpine Swift 'playing' with piece of paper. At 10.00 GMT on 20th June 1985, in sunny conditions with little wind at Les Baux, France, I watched several Alpine Swifts Apus melba with Swifts A. apus feeding 100-200 m up in the vicinity of the old village...

The juvenile Plumage of the Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit and further occurrences of this race in England

01 January 1965 Comments Main paper Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit ~Limosa limosa islandica in Britain and, quoting Williamson and Ruttledge (1958) in support, indicated that this form appeared t o favour the 'western and southern half of the country. This opinion was also upheld by Norrevan...

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01 January 1939 Comments Notes IN winter flocks of Snow-Buntings (Pledrophenax n. nivalis) frequent the summits and higher slopes of the mountains of the Lake District. Counts of these have frequently exceeded fifty birds; the largest counted was one of 117. I have seen a flock on the...

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01 October 1934 Comments Notes As records of the Snow-Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) from inland districts in the south are comparatively few, the following would appear to be of interest despite the fact t h a t one of the occurrences has remained unrecorded for over sixty years. Th...

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The juvenile Plumage of the Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit and further occurrences of this race in England

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