Mystery Photographs

01 April 1998
Comments Main paper "Mixed flocks of Dalmatian Pelicans Pelecanus crispus and White Pelicans P. onocrotalus do occur, but the two are most often seen separately, and a typical view is of a small party of one or the other species in flight overhead. Mystery photograph A, t...
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Mystery Photographs

01 March 1998
Comments Main paper When Britain and Ireland's first Ring-billed Gull Lams delawarensis was discovered in Glamorgan in March 1973, there were already over 60 North American species on the British & Irish List. By January 1988, however, Ring-billed Gull had become our ...
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Mystery Photographs

01 December 1997
Comments Main paper American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus is less-common and less-migratory than Eurasian Oystercatcher H. ostralegus. Though its breeding range includes the eastern seaboard of the USA, from Florida north to New England, the species has yet to be re...
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Mystery Photographs

01 July 1997
Comments Main paper Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus breeds in eastern Siberia, Alaska and Canada and winters from Nicaragua south to northern Peru and northern Brazil. Swainson's Thrash C. ustulatus breeds in Canada and the USA and winters from central Mexico so...
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Mystery Photographs

01 May 1997
Comments Main paper Two small, dark swifts with white rumps are found in the Western Palearctic: Little Swift Apus affinis, which, though recorded in Britain and Ireland on ten occasions up to the end of 1994, breeds no nearer than Northwest Africa, and White-rumped ...
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Mystery photographs

01 September 1996
Comments Main paper Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus is a rare visitor to Britain and Ireland which has become even rarer in recent years. A total of 47 was recorded here up to the end of 1957, 67 during 1958-83 and just 14 from 1984 to the end of 1994. An indi...
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Mystery photographs

01 August 1996
Comments Main paper The aims of this feature, which we inaugurated almost 20 years ago, in December 1976 (Brit. Birds 69: 495), have been not only to provide an entertaining puzzle, but also to focus attention on a series of identification problems, with instructive and e...
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Reviews

01 July 1996
Comments Reviews The Complete Garden Bird Book: how to identify and attract birds to your garden. By Mark Golley, Stephen Moss & David Daly, New Holland, London, 1996. 176 pages; 500 illustrations, ISBN 1-85368-581-X. Paperback £9.99. The only thing wrong with thi...
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