BBRC and Yellow Wagtails

01 July 2016 Comments Main paper Abstract This paper describes BBRC’s current approach to vagrant forms of the Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava in Britain, and includes examples of recent records from the Rarities Committee’s files. Its purpo...
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Letters

01 February 1988 Comments Letters F i e l d identification o f black-headed Yellow Wagtails When discussing races of the Yellow Wagtail Motacillajlava, Martin van den Berg and Gerald Oreel (Brit. Birds 78: 176-183) claimed that 'most records of jeldegg in western E u r o p e probably resu...
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Notes

01 January 1988 Comments Notes W o o d p i g e o n s n e s t i n g o n sea cliffs and i n s i d e buildings Woodpigeons Columba palumbus usually nest on trees, in bushes, hedges, thickets or among creepers, and occasionally on the ground or on ledges of buildings (BWP vol. 4 ) . An exc...
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Notes

01 April 1951 Comments Notes T H E following notes, made on a colony of Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) in a Cambridge street during March, 1949, have been prompted by Mr. C. M. Ogilvie's article on this subject (antea, pp. 1-5). This rookery, comprising only five pairs, was a new one, pr...
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