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Song Thrush attempting to feed and brood Spotted Flycatcher nestlings

01 December 2021 Comments Notes ...

Unusual feeding behaviour by Song Thrush and Blackbird at a garden pond

01 May 2020 Comments Notes ...

Song Thrush eating fallen petals of Bloody Crane’s-bill

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Song and territories of Song Thrushes in a Buckinghamshire village: a ten-year study

01 March 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A long-term census of Song Thrushes Turdus philomelos was carried out in a Buckinghamshire village. Detailed records were kept of song, which began in late October or the first half of November and continued, with breaks caused by col...

Recent reports

01 May 2000 Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers the period 13th March to 16th April 2000. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Gruinard Bay (Highland), 6th April. Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Rolleston-on-Dove (Staffordshire), 25th-31st March; Brixham (Devo...

Notes

01 March 2000 Comments Notes At 08.51 GMT on 19th October 1995, near Keyhaven, Hampshire, I noticed a Great Skua Catharacta skua in fierce pursuit of a Little Egret Egretta garzetta about 1 km away over nearby saltmarsh. The egret was soon seized by the left wing and tumbled into ...

Monthly marathon

01 May 1995 Comments Other The rear view of March's wader (plate 38) provided no serious * problem for the three leaders (Jon Holt, Jakob Sunesen and Peter Sunesen), all of whom (as well as 59% of entrants) identified it as a Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii. Ot...

Development of snail-smashing by Song Thrushes

01 June 1986 Comments Main paper The note on snail-smashing by a previously inexperienced Song Thrush Turdus philomelos (Herring 1984) prompted me to summarise some observations made on hand-reared birds, mostly during 1961, as part of my doctorate project (Henty 1965), but not otherw...