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01 March 2003 Comments Editorials The figures for the number of European Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus breeding in the UK, published in the annual report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel for 2000 (Ogilvie et al. 2002), considerably under-reported the number of pairs, especial...

Notes

01 February 2001 Comments Notes At 17.45 hours on 20th March 1995, at East Hyde on the River Lea, 3.2 km north of Batford, Hertfordshire, I observed an immature Grey Heron Ardea cinerea perched on a branch of an Alder Alnus glutinosa, the only tree along that stretch of the river. Ow...

Breeding European Honey-Buzzards in Britain

01 July 1999 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The European Honey-buzzard Pernis apivorus has been one of the least-studied of Britain's breeding birds, because of its limited range, its scarcity and its reputed susceptibility to disturbance. This paper shows, however, that it is far more ...

Notes

01 August 1985 Comments Notes Pink-footed Geese feeding on school playing-fields. During the exceptionally severe winter of 1981/82, unprecedented numbers of Pink-footed Geese Anser brachyrhynchus were present on the southwest Lancashire and north Merseyside feeding grounds, notabl...

Effect of disease on social hierarchy of young Oystercatchers

01 August 1982 Comments Main paper During a study of the population of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus on Skokholm Island, Dyfed (Safriel 1967), it was found that a clear-cut social hierarchy existed within each brood. The dominant young (the 'a' young) was always the first to obta...

Notes

01 January 1981 Comments Notes Little Egrets with green legs and feet On 9th August 1980, at Porto Lago, Greece, J . I. Blincow and I noticed two Little Egrets Egretta garzetta exhibiting unusual coloration of'legs and feet. Resting upon a concrete groyne and in co...

Letters

01 August 1980 Comments Letters Importance of Ireland's Brent Geese In his account of 'Ireland's winter visitors and passage migrants', C. D. Hutchinson (Brit. Birds 73: 72-80) noted that the Brent Goose Branta bernicla is now the most numerous goose in Ireland and concluded ...

Mystery photographs: European Honey-buzzard

01 September 1979 Comments Main paper Taking full field notes of an unusual bird is very important; in groups such as the medium-sized and larger raptors, observation should be concentrated on shape, silhouette and flight action as much as plumage pattern, since the latter varies so much i...

Honey Buzzard at wasps' nest

01 February 1979 Comments Main paper Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus was watched at a nest of a social wasp Vespula at Holkham, Norfolk, from 11th to 16th October 1976. As there appears to be only one account of feeding behaviour in the British literature (Trap-Lind 1962), and this relates ...