The Encyclopedia of British Birds: Including Every Rare Visitor from Overseas : a Book of Reference on All Matters of Interest to the Bird Watcher and Bird LoverLudwig Koch |
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Africa appearance Arctic Arctic Skua Asia Autumn Avocet behaviour bill bird's Black-headed Gull Blackbird breast breeding season Britain British birds British Isles brood is reared brown Bunting call notes Chaffinch Charadriiformes chicks coasts cock colonies colour common Common Snipe courtship Crested Cuckoo dark display ducks Dunlin England Eric Hosking Europe feathers feeding flight geese genus grass Grebe grey ground Guillemot Gull habits hatching head heard Heron insects Ireland islands John Markham legs length male and female mantle Manx Shearwater mate migration neck nest Nightjar northern pairs parents passage migrant Passeriformes perch pigeons Plover plumage rare Razorbill recorded Reed-Warbler resembles Sandpiper Scotland seen Shearwater Shetland Skua Snipe song species Spotted summer Swan tail tarsus Tern trees underparts usually waders Wagtail Warbler weight wild wing span winter visitor Woodpecker yellow young