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Aerial hunting by a Short-eared Owl

01 March 2020 Comments Letters ...

Unusual hunting method of Short-eared Owl

01 January 2020 Comments Notes At about 15.20 hrs on 17th June 2018, I was watching a Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus hunting over mixed Heather Calluna vulgaris and Purple Moor-grass Molinia caerulea moorland in north Derbyshire. Initially, it was quartering the ...

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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 ...

Homes for birds: the use of houses for nesting by birds in the UK

01 November 2002 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A joint survey, by RSPB and the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme, investigated the use of houses for nesting by four bird species (Common Swift Apus apus, House Martin Delichon urbica, Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris ...

Unequal sex-ratio, mortality causes and pollutant residues in Long-eared Owls in Britain

01 October 1996 Comments Main paper Recent reports have indicated an uneven sex-ratio among wintering Long-eared Owls Asio otus, in favour of males in Norway and females in Britain. Harvey & Riddiford (1990) found a ratio of 28F : 8M among trapped autumn migrants on Fair Is...

Changes in numbers of Common Starlings and farming practice in Lincolnshire

01 May 1994 Comments Main paper ...

Letters

01 February 1984 Comments Letters ...

Letters

01 February 1983 Comments Letters Sabine's Gulls in Britain in winter. Recent issues of British Birds have included two references to Sabine's Gulls Larus sabini being recorded in Britain during the winter, from December to March. The first, in 'Recent reports' (Brit. Birds 74: 237), r...

Letters

01 May 1982 Comments Letters Tail-lengths of Long-eared and Short-eared Owls Would A. H. Davis and Robin Prytherch like to comment on the statement in British Birds 69: 281-287 that the Long-eared Owl Asio otus has a shorter tail than the Short-eared Owl A.flammeus? The me...

Notes

01 May 1982 Comments Notes Dark eye-patch of Fulmar M. Densley's paper on Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea (Brit. Birds 72:23-28) drew attention to the structure and possible function of dark, bristle-like feathers surrounding the eyes of that species in winter plumage. A ...