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The Fair Isle sandpiper: a review

01 July 2005 Comments Main paper ...

From the rarities committee's files: Semipalmated Sandpiper in Orkney

01 April 1995 Comments Editorials Whilst taking a video (300-mm lens) of [Common] Eiders [Somateria mollissima] on a quiet sand/rock beach on Stronsay, two of our visitors, Mike & Lynn Johnson, noticed four small waders fly into view and land on weed-covered rocks close to the wate...

Four problem stints

01 December 1986 Comments Main paper This paper discusses four records of stints Calidris, the identification of which has been much debated. All demonstrate the advances which have been made in recent years, especially including the publication of Lars Jonsson's stint paintings (Jonsson ...

Mystery Photographs

01 July 1984 Comments Editorials What we have in plate 89 (and repeated here) is a robust lark, standing on a rock, with the breeze creating a 'black hole' in its breast and perhaps exaggerating its crest. From the relative size of its bill and its legs, it is not a small bird, and th...

Identification of Stints and Peeps

01 July 1984 Comments Main paper The precision and supreme artistry of Lars Jonsson's stint paintings (plates 113 to 120) fully match the complexities of the subject. They bear the closest inspection, and provide a further major advance in stint identification, building especially on ...

Identification of Semipalmated Sandpiper

01 December 1981 Comments Main paper ...

Mystery photographs: Semipalmated Sandpiper

01 July 1980 Comments Main paper Did I hear you groan: 'Not another [word deleted] stint!'? I should understand if you had, for, although the problems of stint identification are sorting themselves out, they are not doing so quickly. In this case, the view is more than adequate, altho...

Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent and the problem of identification

01 December 1966 Comments Main paper T H E SMALL American Calidris -waders are notoriously difficult to identify, particularly by anyone lacking in experience of the group (see, for example, Nisbet 1963 and Marchant 1963). Between 6th and 9th September 1965, what eventually proved to be a Se...

Studies of less familiar birds 116. Crested Lark

01 January 1962 Comments Main paper cristatd) here, but they show the salient features very well. The species gets its name from the long upstanding crest which arises from the middle of its crown and which is conspicuous even when depressed. Many other larks have crests and inexperienced o...

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVII. Temminck's Stint, The Semipalmated Sandpiper, The Little Stint

01 October 1950 Comments Main paper Photographed by C. G. DES FORGES and j . E. SLUITERS. (Plates 50-59)IN the present instalment of this series we illustrate the two European stints and one of the American species on the British List. Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii) has a wide bree...

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The Fair Isle sandpiper: a review

From the rarities committee's files: Semipalmated Sandpiper in Orkney

Four problem stints

Mystery Photographs

Identification of Stints and Peeps

Identification of Semipalmated Sandpiper

Mystery photographs: Semipalmated Sandpiper

Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent and the problem of identification

Studies of less familiar birds 116. Crested Lark

Studies of some species rarely photographed: XXVII. Temminck's Stint, The Semipalmated Sandpiper, The Little Stint

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