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01 January 2002 Comments Recent Reports This summary of unchecked reports covers mid November to mid December 2001. ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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01 February 2000 Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers 13th December 1999 to 16th January 2000. Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis Willen Lake (Buckinghamshire), 27th December. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Long-stayer at Martin Mere (Lancashire) until 16th Januar y; He...

Field identification of west Palearctic gulls

01 March 1981 Comments Main paper ...

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...

Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCVI. Ivory Gull

01 April 1959 Comments Main paper T H E IVORY GULL (Pagophila eburnea) is probably the most consistently northerly bird in the world as it nests only above the 70th parallel (chiefly between 75° and 85°N.) and remains, for the most part, at the edge of the pack ice in winter. Most colon...

The breeding Biology of the Ivory Gull in Spitsbergen

01 April 1959 Comments Main paper IN THE SUMMER of 1958 R. E. Hitchcock, J. L. Cutbill and ourselves spent just over three weeks at a colony of Ivory Gulls (Pagophila eburnea) in the Spitsbergen area. As the ice conditions were abnormally bad, our arrival at the colony was delayed until 1...

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Roof assemblies of lapwings and plovers in Britain

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Field identification of west Palearctic gulls

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Photographic studies of some Less Familiar birds: XCVI. Ivory Gull

The breeding Biology of the Ivory Gull in Spitsbergen

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