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Redstart hybrids in Europe and North Africa

01 April 2019 Comments Main paper Nicolas Martinez, Bernd Nicolai and Vincent van der SpekAbstract An analysis of 121 wild Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros x Common Redstart P. phoenicurus hybrids from Europe and North Africa is presented, wit...

'Eastern Black Redstart': new to Britain

08 April 2016 Comments BOURC By Andy Stoddart, on behalf of BBRC and BOURCAbstract An orange-bellied Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros at Dungeness, Kent, in November 1981 was originally accepted by BBRC as being of an eastern subspecies but a su...

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Recent reports

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

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01 November 2001 Comments Notes A recent paper dealing with the identification of Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca (Vinicombe 2000) included some discussion on hybrids between that species and Common Pochard A. ferina. Vinicombe's advice, that if a putative Ferruginous Duck shows any a...

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 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

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Letters

01 September 1974 Comments Letters Melanism in shearwaters and auksSince Bryan L. Sage (Brit. Birds, 65: 527) comments on the supposed rarity of melanism in Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus and indeed the Procellariiformes in general, it may be worth pointing out that a dark sp...

Black Redstarts breeding in Britain in 1964-68

01 March 1971 Comments Main paper This is the first of what is intended to be a series of quinquennial reports, following the previous summary covering the years 1950-65 (Fitter 1965). During 1964-68 the observed breeding and territoryholding population of Black Redstarts Phoenicurus ochr...

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Redstart hybrids in Europe and North Africa

'Eastern Black Redstart': new to Britain

Notes

Recent reports

Notes

Recent reports

Recent reports

Field identification of west Palearctic gulls

Letters

Black Redstarts breeding in Britain in 1964-68

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