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01 December 2004 Comments News and comment Plunge-diving by gannets Morus is one of the most spectacular examples of specialist feeding by birds. Dives may commence from 30 m above, and reach depths of 30 m below, the water surface. To improve our understanding of the biomechanics of plunge-diving...

Non-native birds breeding in the UK in 2002

01 December 2004 Comments Main paper This is the seventh annual report by the Rare Breeding Birds Panel into the breeding of rarer non-native species in the UK, and covers the year 2002. Almost 300 species of non-native birds have been reported in the wild in Britain and about one-sixth of t...

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01 February 1993 Comments Letters The Cape Clear 'Griffons' The difficulty which Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus have in maintaining flapping flight for substantial periods over the sea makes it highly improbable that the five unidentified eagle-like birds observed flying past Cape Clear ...

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01 February 1993 Comments Reviews Grouse in Space and Time: the population biology of a managed gamebird. By Peter J. Hudson. Game Conservancy, Fordingbridge, 1992. 63 colour plates; 61 line-drawings. £25.00. Over nine million acres of upland Britain are maintained in a highly ar...

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