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01 October 2001 Comments Editorials Thanks to the generosity of well-known artist and staunch BB-supporter Ian Wallace, BB is delighted to offer its subscribers the opportunity to purchase this fantastic DIMW original, featuring European Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria and No...

Notes

01 April 2001 Comments Notes ...

Roof assemblies of lapwings and plovers in Britain

01 January 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The use of the large roof areas of commercial and industrial premises for daytime roosting by Northern Lapwings Vanellus vanellus and European Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria is a relatively new phenomenon, confined mostly...

Mystery photographs

01 July 1985 Comments Main paper The slim body and bill, long tail and legs, and habitat of last month's mystery bird (plates 118 & 119, repeated here as 158 & 159) clearly indicate a species of pipit Anthus. The prominence of the pale supercilium and submoustachial stripe sho...

Notes

01 October 1977 Comments Notes Displays of Moorhen In bis paper on the breeding behaviour and biology of the Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (Brit. Birds 67: 104-115, 137-158), N. A. Wood described displays performed on water when intruders were near a nest containing eggs and y...

Letters

01 February 1977 Comments Letters Photographic quality and usefulness While browsing through a dozen recent volumes of the Swedish journal Vår Fågelvårld, I was impressed by the high proportion of photographs depicting birds in flight, even though not all of them were of very good q...

Letters

01 March 1958 Comments Letters I N F O R M A T I O N W A N T E D ON L A P W I N G C H I C K S S I R S , -- F r o m observations made over a number of years on the growth and development of young Lapwings (Vanellus vanellus), it would appear that early hatching chicks develop more rapid...

Notes on the Lapwing and Curlew Breeding Population of a Cumberland Farm

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper 1937 and 1938 a census was undertaken of' the Lapwings (Vaneihts vanellus) and Curlews (Numenius a. atquata) breeding on an area of farm-land in Cumberland extending to 650 acres or approximately one square mile. This area is about three hundred feet abov...

An account of the Lapwing population on a Surrey farm

01 January 1939 Comments Main paper IT may be interesting in connexion with the Report on the Lapwing Habitat Inquiry, which covers a large part of the country during a single year, to see the result of regular observations of Lapwings on one farm during a period of nearly five consecutive ...

Report on the Lapwing habitat inquiry, 1937

01 January 1939 Comments Main paper The Inquiry had the triple aim of indicating factors governing distribution and numbers of the Lapwing {Vanellus vanellus), of developing techniques for habitat study, and of creating a nucleus of trained observers for this branch of field ornithology. F...

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Roof assemblies of lapwings and plovers in Britain

Mystery photographs

Notes

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Letters

Notes on the Lapwing and Curlew Breeding Population of a Cumberland Farm

An account of the Lapwing population on a Surrey farm

Report on the Lapwing habitat inquiry, 1937

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