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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Correction

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...
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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 ...
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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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