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Are we underestimating the UK Common Swift population?

01 March 2024 Comments BB eye ...

Identification of pekinensis Common Swift

01 January 2022 Comments Main paper ...

Birds of Conservation Concern 5 and IUCN 2

01 December 2021 Comments Main paper ...

Probable Black Tern x White-winged Black Tern hybrid

01 June 2021 Comments Notes ...

Common Swifts roosting in nestbox used by Common Starlings

01 May 2021 Comments Notes ...

Sexual dimorphism of acoustic signals in the Common Swift

19 May 2016 Comments Main paper ByÂ Konrad Ansorge Abstract The typical screaming calls of the Common Swift Apus apus include a scream followed by a trill. The pitch and the duration of the different parts of the calls produced by breeding birds in ...

Behavioural thermoregulation in the Common Swift during flight

12 May 2016 Comments Main paper ByÂ Christian Neumann Abstract For the Common Swift Apus apus, which spends most of its life on the wing, thermoregulation during flight should be particularly important. For the first time, evaporative and non-evapor...

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01 December 2009 Comments Notes All Notes submitted to British Birds are subject to independent review, either by the Notes Panel or by the BB Editorial Board.Those considered appropriate for BB will be published either here or on our website (www.britishbirds.co.uk) subject to the a...

Bird Photograph of the Year 2007

01 August 2007 Comments Main paper ...

The Carl Zeiss Award 2005

01 November 2005 Comments Main paper One of the most enjoyable tasks in the working year of the BBRC is judging the Carl Zeiss Award for the most instructive photograph, or series of photographs, of a British rarity assessed during that year. The photographs that we receive as part of rar...

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Are we underestimating the UK Common Swift population?

Identification of pekinensis Common Swift

Birds of Conservation Concern 5 and IUCN 2

Probable Black Tern x White-winged Black Tern hybrid

Common Swifts roosting in nestbox used by Common Starlings

Sexual dimorphism of acoustic signals in the Common Swift

Behavioural thermoregulation in the Common Swift during flight

Notes

Bird Photograph of the Year 2007

The Carl Zeiss Award 2005

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