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Redstart hybrids in Europe and North Africa

01 April 2019 Comments Main paper Nicolas Martinez, Bernd Nicolai and Vincent van der SpekAbstract An analysis of 121 wild Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros x Common Redstart P. phoenicurus hybrids from Europe and North Africa is presented, wit...

'Eastern Black Redstart': new to Britain

08 April 2016 Comments BOURC By Andy Stoddart, on behalf of BBRC and BOURCAbstract An orange-bellied Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros at Dungeness, Kent, in November 1981 was originally accepted by BBRC as being of an eastern subspecies but a su...

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01 November 2001 Comments Notes A recent paper dealing with the identification of Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca (Vinicombe 2000) included some discussion on hybrids between that species and Common Pochard A. ferina. Vinicombe's advice, that if a putative Ferruginous Duck shows any a...

Announcement

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...

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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...

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01 October 1977 Comments Notes Displays of Moorhen In bis paper on the breeding behaviour and biology of the Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (Brit. Birds 67: 104-115, 137-158), N. A. Wood described displays performed on water when intruders were near a nest containing eggs and y...

Letters

01 September 1974 Comments Letters Melanism in shearwaters and auksSince Bryan L. Sage (Brit. Birds, 65: 527) comments on the supposed rarity of melanism in Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus and indeed the Procellariiformes in general, it may be worth pointing out that a dark sp...

Black Redstarts breeding in Britain in 1964-68

01 March 1971 Comments Main paper This is the first of what is intended to be a series of quinquennial reports, following the previous summary covering the years 1950-65 (Fitter 1965). During 1964-68 the observed breeding and territoryholding population of Black Redstarts Phoenicurus ochr...