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01 May 2019 Comments Recent Reports Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Harry Hussey This summary of unchecked reports covers early March to early April 2019. Headlines It was a generally quiet period, ...

Notes

01 February 2001 Comments Notes At 17.45 hours on 20th March 1995, at East Hyde on the River Lea, 3.2 km north of Batford, Hertfordshire, I observed an immature Grey Heron Ardea cinerea perched on a branch of an Alder Alnus glutinosa, the only tree along that stretch of the river. Ow...

Recent reports

01 January 2001 Comments Recent Reports This summary of unchecked reports covers the period 13th November 2000 to 1st January 2001. American Wigeon Anas americana Males at Rogerstown (Co. Dublin) and North Slob (Co. Wexford), both remaining through November into December. Black Duck Anas rub...

Recent reports

01 May 2000 Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers the period 13th March to 16th April 2000. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Gruinard Bay (Highland), 6th April. Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Rolleston-on-Dove (Staffordshire), 25th-31st March; Brixham (Devo...

Ages of Great Spotted Cuckoos in Britain and Ireland

01 March 1995 Comments Main paper Great Spotted Cuckoo Clamator glandarius breeds in southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, but it nests regularly in western Europe only in Portugal, Spain, southern France and western Italy. Those from this population winter in Africa. Autumn mig...

Notes

01 August 1985 Comments Notes Pink-footed Geese feeding on school playing-fields. During the exceptionally severe winter of 1981/82, unprecedented numbers of Pink-footed Geese Anser brachyrhynchus were present on the southwest Lancashire and north Merseyside feeding grounds, notabl...

Effect of disease on social hierarchy of young Oystercatchers

01 August 1982 Comments Main paper During a study of the population of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus on Skokholm Island, Dyfed (Safriel 1967), it was found that a clear-cut social hierarchy existed within each brood. The dominant young (the 'a' young) was always the first to obta...

Notes

01 January 1981 Comments Notes Little Egrets with green legs and feet On 9th August 1980, at Porto Lago, Greece, J . I. Blincow and I noticed two Little Egrets Egretta garzetta exhibiting unusual coloration of'legs and feet. Resting upon a concrete groyne and in co...

Letters

01 August 1980 Comments Letters Importance of Ireland's Brent Geese In his account of 'Ireland's winter visitors and passage migrants', C. D. Hutchinson (Brit. Birds 73: 72-80) noted that the Brent Goose Branta bernicla is now the most numerous goose in Ireland and concluded ...