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Barrow's Goldeneye in Strathclyde: new to Britain and Ireland

01 February 1995 Comments Main paper The recent full acceptance of the male Barrow's Goldeneye Bucephala islandica at Irvine, Strathclyde, from 4th November to 28th December 1979 (Brit. Birds 85: 519-520) ends a long period of uncertainty regarding the status of this species in Britain an...

Mystery photographs

01 December 1991 Comments Main paper ...

Effect of disease on social hierarchy of young Oystercatchers

01 August 1982 Comments Main paper During a study of the population of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus on Skokholm Island, Dyfed (Safriel 1967), it was found that a clear-cut social hierarchy existed within each brood. The dominant young (the 'a' young) was always the first to obta...

Recent reports

01 June 1979 Comments Recent Reports ...

Migration of the Oystercatcher in the area of Britain

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Effect of laying date on chick production in Oystercatchers and Herring Gulls

01 January 1969 Comments Main paper It has been widely believed that birds timed their breeding seasons so that the young were raised when food was most abundant or easily obtained, but Perrins (1965, 1966) showed for two such different species as the Great Tit Parus major and the Manx Shea...

Wool causing injuries to legs and feet of Oystercatchers

01 June 1968 Comments Main paper Although many diseases and deformities of the legs and bills of wild birds have been described (e.g. Keymer 1958, Keymer and Blackmore 1964, Pomeroy 1962), few records of leg and foot deformities among waders (Charadriiformes) appear to have been publishe...

Migration of the Oystercatcher

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper ONE OF THE tentative conclusions reached in E. J. M. Buxton's paper on this subject (antea, vol. L, pp. 519-526) was that mature Oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) "do not move so far away from their breeding area as immature birds". This conclusion c...

Observations on the feeding of the Oystercatcher in Captivity

01 April 1958 Comments Main paper (Fisheries Experiment Station,; Conway) ESTIMATES of the food intake of the Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) have been made in the field in the past three years (Drinnan, 1956, 1957). These have yielded results consistently higher than food intakes r...

Flocking behaviour of Oystercatchers

01 March 1953 Comments Main paper SOME observations made in company with Ian Munro during a twohours' watch from a permanent hide, built by him near the tip of a sand-and-shingle spit in the Eden estuary, Fife, may have some interest for students of bird behaviour. We entered the hide two...

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Barrow's Goldeneye in Strathclyde: new to Britain and Ireland

Mystery photographs

Effect of disease on social hierarchy of young Oystercatchers

Recent reports

Migration of the Oystercatcher in the area of Britain

Effect of laying date on chick production in Oystercatchers and Herring Gulls

Wool causing injuries to legs and feet of Oystercatchers

Migration of the Oystercatcher

Observations on the feeding of the Oystercatcher in Captivity

Flocking behaviour of Oystercatchers

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