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Rethinking bird feeding

01 January 2022 Comments BB eye ...

The ecology and conservation of the Marsh Tit in Britain

09 January 2015 Comments Main paper By Richard Broughton and Shelley Hinsley Abstract The Marsh Tit Poecile palustris is one of several British woodland birds to have suffered a serious population decline in recent decades. Its abundance has falle...

Savi's Warblers breeding In Suffolk

13 March 2014 Comments Main paper From 7th June 1856, when the last recorded survivor of the breeding population was shot at Surlingham, Norfolk (Stevenson 1866), Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioiies was unknown as a British summer resident until i960 when a small population was identif...

Letters

01 February 2010 Comments Letters The recent paper by Richard Broughton (Brit. Birds 102: 604-616) summarised a welcome analysis of the relative importance of the various criteria used to separate Willow Poecile montana and Marsh Tits P. palustris. We consider, however, that the con- clus...

Separation of Willow Tit and Marsh Tit in Britain: a review

16 November 2009 Comments Main paper These sound files accompany a paper on the separation of Willow and Marsh Tits, published in BB in November 2009: ...

Notes

01 March 2008 Comments Notes ...

Monthly marathon

01 April 2005 Comments Other ...

The status of Marsh and Willow Tits in the UK

01 September 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The population trends of Marsh Parus palustris and Willow Tits P. montanus in the UK are examined using data from ringing totals, from 1956 to 2001 inclusive.These data may represent the best long-term information av...

Letters

01 November 1990 Comments Letters Sexual dimorphism of Marsh Tit. Both Gosler & King (1989) and Nilsson & Smith (1988) have recently reported sexual dimorphism in the intensity of the black of the cap on Marsh Tits Parus palustris (adults and first-years), males having markedly...

Letters

01 December 1984 Comments Letters Tufted Duck carrying young. In connection with the recent notes by Montse Carbonell and Stephen B. Edwards (Brit. Birds 77: 318-319), I should like to draw attention to a previous published account by my husband, the late Dr Jeffery Harrison, of a fema...