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The migration of Common and Arctic Terns in southern England

01 April 2014 Comments Main paper By Keith Vinicombe Abstract Counts of Common Sterna hirundo and Arctic Terns S. paradisaea at Chew Valley Lake, Avon, are analysed over a 36-year period. These data are compared with counts from seawatching headlands on the s...

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13 March 2014 Comments Notes Two pairs of Kestrels nesting on one electricity pylon On 15 th April 1971, in an area of reinstated opencast land at Staveley, Derbyshire, loud trilling calls drew my attention to four Kestrels Falco tinnunculus on an electricity pylon. There were two ol...

Redpolls: a review of their taxonomy, identification and British status

09 December 2013 Comments Main paper Andy Stoddart Abstract For taxonomists and birders alike, redpolls have long posed complex problems. This paper reviews our progress in solving those problems. It summarises the history and nature of the taxonomic debates and, for...

Monthly marathon

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Letters

01 April 2002 Comments Letters Having read the `Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2000' (Brit. Birds 94: 452-504), as well as several of the previous Reports, I feel that clarification is needed on the correct terminology to be used with regard to rare species the occurrence ...

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01 March 2002 Comments Notes Is there a dark morph of the North African race of Long-legged Buzzard? Dificulties in determining the age of Arctic Terns in the field Sparrowhawk extracting Gret Tit from feeding cage Hunting method of Merlins in the breeding ...

The taxonomic status of Lesser Redpoll

01 June 2001 Comments Main paper Lesser Redpoll Carduelis cabaret has until recently been widely regarded as a subspecies of Common Redpoll C.flammea. In the past, it was geographically isolated from other redpolls during the breeding season, but expansion of its range s...

Inland spring passage of Arctic Terns in southern Britain

01 May 1995 Comments Main paper Inland spring passage through Britain of large numbers of Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea is not a recent phenomenon. A remarkable passage occurred in April 1947, related to a weather system which produced strong southwesterly gales during 19th-23rd: Ar...

If the caption fits . . .

01 May 1990 Comments Editorials This Black-headed Gull Lams ridibundus (plate 125, opposite) was photographed in Suffolk in November 1977 by Terry Bond, who suggested that the bird is saying: 'You wouldn't believe how many people identify me as a Laughing Gull!' Can you think of an e...