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Three cases of polygyny in the Ring Ouzel

01 February 2023 Comments Main paper ...

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 ...

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 ...

Notes

01 March 2005 Comments Notes Little Grebe swallowing small mammal Cream-coloured Courser showing feeding attachement to desert road Exceptional numbers of Oriental Plovers in southern Siberia in 2003 Ruffs feeding on contents of Giraffe's stomach Ta...

Monthly marathon

01 December 2000 Comments Other It's a Ruff Philomachus pugnax, isn't it? October's Monthly Marathon picture (plate 300, repeated here as plate 363) is one that I expect many people will have recognised instantly without necessarily being able to put their finger on exactly ...

Looking back

01 February 2000 Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `Migration of the Ring Ouzel (Cinclus aquaticus) [Turdus torquatus].- The number of ring ouzels passing southward this autumn has been astonishing. Large flocks were seen continually on the downs [at Lewes, East Sussex]...

Monthly marathon

01 September 1994 Comments Other The two birds shown in plate 94 were named as White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons (37%), Bean Geese A. fabalis (35%), Pink-footed Geese A. brachyrhynchus (14%), Greylag Geese A. anser (8%) and Lesser White-fronted Geese A. erythropus (6%), wi...