Search

Three cases of polygyny in the Ring Ouzel

01 February 2023 Comments Main paper ...

Rethinking bird feeding

01 January 2022 Comments BB eye ...

The Ring Ouzel: a view from the North York Moors

01 December 2020 Comments Open Access The Ring Ouzel: a view from the North York Moors...

Extralimital races of the Ring Ouzel in Britain

01 February 2015 Comments BOURC In 2012 BOURC undertook a review of three records of extralimital races of Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus in Britain. It concluded that the records were no longer acceptable and that the races alpestris and ...

The ecology and conservation of the Marsh Tit in Britain

09 January 2015 Comments Main paper By Richard Broughton and Shelley Hinsley Abstract The Marsh Tit Poecile palustris is one of several British woodland birds to have suffered a serious population decline in recent decades. Its abundance has falle...

Habitat associations and winter distribution of Ring Ouzels in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco

01 November 2012 Comments Short paper ...

Notes

01 February 2011 Comments Notes One of the most likely forms of avian play involves a bird carrying an object into the air to repeatedly drop and catch it in flight. With some variations, drop-catch behaviour has been observed in raptors, gulls, corvids and possibly hirundines (Ficken 1...

The decline of the Ring Ouzel in Britain

01 April 2010 Comments Main paper ...

Letters

01 February 2010 Comments Letters The recent paper by Richard Broughton (Brit. Birds 102: 604-616) summarised a welcome analysis of the relative importance of the various criteria used to separate Willow Poecile montana and Marsh Tits P. palustris. We consider, however, that the con- clus...

Separation of Willow Tit and Marsh Tit in Britain: a review

16 November 2009 Comments Main paper These sound files accompany a paper on the separation of Willow and Marsh Tits, published in BB in November 2009: ...