Notes

01 January 2009 Comments Notes Hybrid Aythya showing features of Redhead Difference in shape of bill-base feathering between Common and Black Scoters in non-adult-male plumage Identification of Citrine and Yellow Wagtails – a possible identificat...
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Monthly marathon

01 January 2004 Comments Other A novice birdwatcher looking at Monthly Marathon photo number 201 (Brit. Birds 96: plate 245, repeated here as plate 25) might wonder if the bird depicted in the photograph is a wader, with the stripes on the mantle possibly suggesting a species of sni...
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Recent reports

01 June 2000 Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers the period 17th April to 15th May 2000. White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Between Catfirth and South Nesting (Shetland), 24th April; Gruinard Bay (Highland), 3rd May; Sound of Barra (Western Isles), 6th May; off...
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Recent reports

01 February 2000 Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers 13th December 1999 to 16th January 2000. Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis Willen Lake (Buckinghamshire), 27th December. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Long-stayer at Martin Mere (Lancashire) until 16th Januar y; He...
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Notes

01 September 1970 Comments Notes Common Scoters inland I was interested in the recent notes by Spencer (1969) and White (1970) on overland movements of Common Scoters Melanitta nigra, as not only The Handbook, but also Baxter and Rintoul (1953), Kennedy et al. (1955), Bannerman (1958), A...
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