Volume 106 Issue 4 | British Birds

British Birds April 2013

03 April 2013 Comments Latest issues BB eye Ghosts and American Goshawks, by Conor Jameson News & comment Organochlorine pesticides and birds In the second paper in our series to mark the research interests of Stanley Cramp, Ian Newton looks at the impact of pesti...

BB eye

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News & Comment

01 April 2013 Comments News and comment ...

Organochlorine pesticides and birds

05 April 2013 Comments Main paper By Ian Newton Abstract This is the second paper in a series to mark the research interests of former BB editor Stanley Cramp, and looks at the impact of pesticides on birds over the past 50 years or so. Cramp's interest in t...

Avian drop-catch play: a review

07 April 2013 Comments Main paper By Stephen Hewitt Abstract Repeated dropping-and-catching of non-food objects by birds in flight has been recorded in over 25 bird species, of which raptors, gulls and corvids are the most well represented groups. Drop-catching of prey obje...

Autumn raptor migration over Malta

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Obituaries

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Notes

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Letters

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Recent reports

01 April 2013 Comments Recent Reports This summary of unchecked reports covers the period from early February to early March 2...

The amateur British ornithologist – amber-listed?

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Richard Mabey - Whistling in the dark

09 April 2013 Comments News and comment In April, Common Nightingales fly back to England from their winter quarters in tropical Africa - males first, females a week later. Why have these unexceptional-looking creatures been the most celebrated songbirds in Western literature for 2,000 years, f...

April issue - some printing problems

08 April 2013 Comments News and comment We ...

Cuckoo update

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Silent Spring

01 April 2013 Comments News and comment At this time of year I am regularly out surveying Woodlarks on the Thames Basin Heaths. By now, several pairs would normally have nests on my local patch. It's not unknown for some to have young by the beginning...

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