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BB eye – The buzz of ‘nocmig’

01 August 2018 Comments Editorials ...

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01 April 2014 Comments Letters The ability to hear Goldcrest song and the im...

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01 December 2008 Comments Notes Merlins plucking and eating dead young Short-eared Owl sitting on sea surface to avoid Carrion Crows Male Firecrest helping to feed a Goldcrest family ...

Letters

01 March 2006 Comments Letters When Garner (2005) reviewed the `Fair Isle sandpiper' (FIS), his reasoning that the bird was not a Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri seemed compelling. It is not possible for statistics to prove that the bird was one species or another, since it deals o...

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...

Fifty years ago

01 September 1981 Comments Other 'GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN IN INNER LONDON. On July 12th, 1931, I was sitting in Eaton Square Gardens with my wife and son and we all saw about fifteen feet away a Golden-crested Wren (Regulus r. anglorum) hopping about in the grass, very tame and easil...

Apparent hybridisation of Firecrest and Goldcrest

01 November 1976 Comments Main paper From 20th to 29th June 1974, a male Firecrest Regulus ignicapillus was seen regularly, singing strongly but evidently without a mate, in a wood in east Suffolk. The area had not been visited for some time before 20th June, so that it is not known how l...

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...

Notes

01 July 1958 Comments Notes Magpie burying and recovering food.--With reference to the note by Derek Goodwin on " J a y s and Carrion Crows recovering hidden food" (antea, vol. xlviii, pp. 181-183) and other comparable observations, a note on this habit in the Magpie (Pica pica) may...

Some notes on the Crested Lark

01 June 1948 Comments Main paper the summer of 1940 until May 1945 we were in various prison camps scattered over Germany and Poland. For most of the time two of us were together. In 1946 one of us was for a short time again in Germany. Crested Larks (Galerida c. cristata) were seen wher...

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BB eye – The buzz of ‘nocmig’

Letters

Notes

Letters

Mystery Photographs

Fifty years ago

Apparent hybridisation of Firecrest and Goldcrest

Studies of less familiar birds 116. Crested Lark

Notes

Some notes on the Crested Lark

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