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Song Thrush attempting to feed and brood Spotted Flycatcher nestlings

01 December 2021 Comments Notes ...

Unusual feeding behaviour by Song Thrush and Blackbird at a garden pond

01 May 2020 Comments Notes ...

Song Thrush eating fallen petals of Bloody Crane’s-bill

01 May 2020 Comments Notes ...

Song and territories of Song Thrushes in a Buckinghamshire village: a ten-year study

01 March 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A long-term census of Song Thrushes Turdus philomelos was carried out in a Buckinghamshire village. Detailed records were kept of song, which began in late October or the first half of November and continued, with breaks caused by col...

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01 March 2000 Comments Notes At 08.51 GMT on 19th October 1995, near Keyhaven, Hampshire, I noticed a Great Skua Catharacta skua in fierce pursuit of a Little Egret Egretta garzetta about 1 km away over nearby saltmarsh. The egret was soon seized by the left wing and tumbled into ...

Monthly marathon

01 May 1995 Comments Other The rear view of March's wader (plate 38) provided no serious * problem for the three leaders (Jon Holt, Jakob Sunesen and Peter Sunesen), all of whom (as well as 59% of entrants) identified it as a Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii. Ot...

Development of snail-smashing by Song Thrushes

01 June 1986 Comments Main paper The note on snail-smashing by a previously inexperienced Song Thrush Turdus philomelos (Herring 1984) prompted me to summarise some observations made on hand-reared birds, mostly during 1961, as part of my doctorate project (Henty 1965), but not otherw...

The snail-eating behaviour of thrushes and Blackbirds

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Wild fruits in the diet of British thrushes

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

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01 September 1973 Comments Notes Unusual hunting behaviour of Sparrowhawks During February 1972, at Benacre, Suffolk, I spent several hours observing a pair of Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus hunting over a particular field which had been left to seed. This field was the feeding ...

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Song Thrush attempting to feed and brood Spotted Flycatcher nestlings

Unusual feeding behaviour by Song Thrush and Blackbird at a garden pond

Song Thrush eating fallen petals of Bloody Crane’s-bill

Song and territories of Song Thrushes in a Buckinghamshire village: a ten-year study

Notes

Monthly marathon

Development of snail-smashing by Song Thrushes

The snail-eating behaviour of thrushes and Blackbirds

Wild fruits in the diet of British thrushes

Notes

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