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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 ...

Notes

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 ...

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01 October 2001 Comments Editorials Thanks to the generosity of well-known artist and staunch BB-supporter Ian Wallace, BB is delighted to offer its subscribers the opportunity to purchase this fantastic DIMW original, featuring European Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria and No...

Notes

01 April 2001 Comments Notes ...

Roof assemblies of lapwings and plovers in Britain

01 January 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The use of the large roof areas of commercial and industrial premises for daytime roosting by Northern Lapwings Vanellus vanellus and European Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria is a relatively new phenomenon, confined mostly...

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...

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...