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01 January 1988 Comments Notes W o o d p i g e o n s n e s t i n g o n sea cliffs and i n s i d e buildings Woodpigeons Columba palumbus usually nest on trees, in bushes, hedges, thickets or among creepers, and occasionally on the ground or on ledges of buildings (BWP vol. 4 ) . An exc...

Wigeon X Chiloe Wigeon hybrid resembling American Wigeon

01 April 1968 Comments Main paper It has been established that some interspecific hybrids among ducks and geese (Anatidae) strongly resemble one parent or even another species altogether, thus causing problems in field-identification. An extreme case in Britain is the hybrid Pochard Ay...

Hybrid Grey Lag X Canada Goose suggesting influence of Giant Canada Goose in Britain

01 December 1966 Comments Main paper of 1962, at Millom, south Cumberland, a male Grey Lag Goose Anser anser mated with a female Canada Goose Branta canadensis. The Canada Goose, which was perfectly normal in all its plumage characters, had flown in to join a flock of Grey Lags maintained in...

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01 July 1936 Comments Notes CROSSBILLS' METHOD OF FEEDING, A NOTE in the June number of British Birds (Vol. XXX., p. 27) by B. D. Moreton, tempts me to carry the observations a little farther by publishing a few notes made as long ago as 1888 on the method of feeding of some Crossbi...

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Wigeon X Chiloe Wigeon hybrid resembling American Wigeon

Hybrid Grey Lag X Canada Goose suggesting influence of Giant Canada Goose in Britain

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