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01 April 2000 Comments Other February's mystery bird (plate 71, repeated here as plate 116) is clearly a medium-sized leaf-warbler Phylloscopus. There are no obvious wing-bars or tertial tips, and apparently no central crown stripe, so we can immediately rule out a number of speci...

Taxonomy and identification of chiffchaffs in the Western Palearctic

01 September 1998 Comments Main paper ...

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01 October 1979 Comments Notes Underwing-feeding by Night Heron Canopy feeding by the Black Egret Egretta ardesiaca is well known, and recently has been recorded by M. D. England for Black Storks Ciconia nigra in Portugal (Brit. Birds 67: 236237). J. F. Reynolds (Brit. Birds...

Mystery photographs: Common Chiffchaff

01 October 1979 Comments Main paper Any Phylloscopus warbler which shows an obvious single wing-bar is bound to attract attention. Of the European species, this is supposed to be a mark only of Greenish P. trochiloides or Arctic Warbler P. borealis, both rare in Britain. . Last mont...

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Taxonomy and identification of chiffchaffs in the Western Palearctic

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Mystery photographs: Common Chiffchaff

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