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Foraging activity and habitat use by European Nightjars in South Wales

01 July 2014 Comments Main paper Paddy Jenks, Mick Green and Tony Cross Abstract Foraging activity and habitat use by European Nightjars Caprimulgus europaeus were measured during a radio-tracking study in coniferous forest in S...

The review of the record of Slender-billed Curlew at Druridge Bay, Northumberland

01 July 2014 Comments BOURC J. Martin Collinson, Adam Rowlands, Jimmy G. Steele, Christopher J. McInerny and Nigel Hudson, on behalf of BOURC and BBRCAbstract The record of a Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris&n...

BB eye – In memoriam

01 July 2014 Comments Editorials One hundred years ago this month Europe entered a war that was to kill millions. Men from all walks of life, including birdwatchers and ornithologists, volunteered or were called to fight for their country and many died. Derek Niemann (Birds in a C...

News & Comment

01 July 2014 Comments News and comment Compiled by Adrian Pitches Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of British Birds. ...

‘Asian Red-rumped Swallow’ in Orkney and Highland: new to Britain

01 July 2014 Comments Open Access Abstract ...

Assessing and recording Subalpine Warblers

01 July 2014 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

01 July 2014 Comments Notes ...

Recent reports

01 July 2014 Comments Recent Reports This summary of unchecked reports covers the period from early May to early June 2014. ...

Expeditions

01 April 1983 Comments Main paper This is the third of these features on ornithological expeditions; our first reports appeared in April 1979 and May 1981 {Brit. Birds 72: 139-142; 74:218-223). Leaders of expeditions within the western Palearctic (and also by British and Irish ...

Identification of first-winter Pallas's Reed Bunting

01 April 1983 Comments Main paper A first-winter female Pallas's Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi on Fair Isle, Shetland, on 17th September 1981, was tentatively identified in the field. Examination of skins and a literature search were necessary, however, to determine the features diagno...

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