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01 February 2003 Comments Other I think most people will recognise the slim, brownish passerine with heavily streaked underparts in photograph 193 (Brit. Birds 95: plate 322, repeated here as plate 58) as some kind of pipit Anthus. That much is easy, but pipits are one group...
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01 March 2002 Comments Editorials A study of Common Crossbills Loxia curvirostra in Scotland, shortly to be published in Ibis, has shown that the birds have different call types, recognisable on sonograms of tape-recorded calls. This finding matches the results of work carried out in N...
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Notes

01 December 1986 Comments Notes Behaviour of juvenile Baillon's Crake This note appears on pages 675-677. Gait and leg length of Spotted Sandpiper Between 4th November 1984 and January 1985, a Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia wintered on the Tavy Estuary, Devon, in company...
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