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The migration of Common and Arctic Terns in southern England

01 April 2014 Comments Main paper By Keith Vinicombe Abstract Counts of Common Sterna hirundo and Arctic Terns S. paradisaea at Chew Valley Lake, Avon, are analysed over a 36-year period. These data are compared with counts from seawatching headlands on the s...

Monthly marathon

01 July 2003 Comments Other ...

Notes

01 March 2002 Comments Notes Is there a dark morph of the North African race of Long-legged Buzzard? Dificulties in determining the age of Arctic Terns in the field Sparrowhawk extracting Gret Tit from feeding cage Hunting method of Merlins in the breeding ...

Recent reports

01 December 2000 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers the period 16th October to 12th November 2000. November. Gyr Falcon Falco rusticolus Kilcoole (Co. Wicklow), 11th-12th November. Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius Dunwich/Blythburgh/ Minsmere Pied-billed Grebe...

Recent reports

01 June 2000 Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers the period 17th April to 15th May 2000. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Between Catfirth and South Nesting (Shetland), 24th April; Gruinard Bay (Highland), 3rd May; Sound of Barra (Western Isles), 6th May; off...

Inland spring passage of Arctic Terns in southern Britain

01 May 1995 Comments Main paper Inland spring passage through Britain of large numbers of Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea is not a recent phenomenon. A remarkable passage occurred in April 1947, related to a weather system which produced strong southwesterly gales during 19th-23rd: Ar...

Monthly marathon

01 June 1994 Comments Other With that wing-stretching wader (plate 43 in the March issue), the sixth 'Monthly marathon' has been won. It was identified as Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (48%), Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes (36%) and seven other wader species. It was a Wood Sandpi...

If the caption fits . . .

01 May 1990 Comments Editorials This Black-headed Gull Lams ridibundus (plate 125, opposite) was photographed in Suffolk in November 1977 by Terry Bond, who suggested that the bird is saying: 'You wouldn't believe how many people identify me as a Laughing Gull!' Can you think of an e...