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RADIOACTIVE ROBINS>	CHERNOBYL /// DOWNLOAD RADIOACTIVE ROBINS TEXT (.PDF=3MB)
ID-PROBLEMS>	QUESTIONS
Colour mutation>	Colour mutation
Unusual Behaviour>	Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus with hanging wings
Abnormal plumages>	Rare case of gynandromorphy		unusual plumages
Hybrids>	Hybrids
GREBES>	Black-necked Grebe   Great Crested Grebe   Horned - or  Slavonian Grebe			Little Grebe   Red-necked Grebe
SEABIRDS>	Arctic Quillemot   Blue footed booby   Cormorants >   a>			Masked Booby   Strange Fulmar   Wedge-tailed Shearwater
HERONS, EGRETS, SPOONBILLS>	Arabian Reef Heron   Great Blue Heron   Grey Heron			Little Egret   Purple Heron   Little Egret with dark eyes   Spoonbill
SWANS & GEESE>	Whistling Swan   Bewick's Swan			Geese
DUCKS>	Canadian Eiders in the North Sea   Another Canadian Eider in the North Sea area   Ruddy shelduck Tadorna ferruginea   Teal Anas crecca   Gadwall Anas strepera   Falcated Duck Anas falcata			Shelduck    Hybrids    Oldsquaw Clangula hyemalis hybridisation   Shoveler Anas clypeata    Goldeneye Bucephala clangula   Ring-necked ducks
				Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
BIRDS OF PREY>	Merlin/Falco columbarius   An interesting falcon   hobby Falco subbuteo   The Peregrine of North America -   Nearctic Peregrines Falco peregrinus  anatum  &  Falco peregrinus tundrius			Escaped birds of prey and their origin   How a Peregrine lost it's prey to a Kestrel    Northern Peregrine F.p.calidus   Peregrine Falco peregrinus
WADERS & SNIPES>	1 Kentish Plover     2 Hudsonian Whimbrel   3 Hudsonian Dunlin   4 Interesting Wader   5 Knots   5A Knots in 1st summerplumage   6 Baltic Dunlin   7 The Sanderlings Calidris alba in a storm   7A Sanderlings ready to fly home   8 Little Stint Calidris minuta   9 Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis  10 Dunlins Calidris alpina in juvenile plumage  11Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus  12 Golden Plover  13 American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica  14 Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva Download and read in .pdf: Report on wader ringing in Rhine-Meuse delta 1984-85 (mainly in dutch language 9 mb) download			15 Waders - Cannibalism in the cold  16 A plumage for all seasons  17 European Curlew Numenius a.arquata  18 Eastern or Russian Curlew Numenius a.orientalis  19 Steppe Curlews Numenius arquata suschkini  20a Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia in The Netherlands-1  20b Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia in The Netherlands-2  21 Greenland ringed Plover  22 Ringed Plover   23 young Ringed Plovers Charadrius hiaticula   24 Post-breeding & immature plumages of Sanderling Calidris alba  25 Immature and other plumages of Dunlin Calidris alpina  Snipe Gallinago gallinago           & Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura  26 British Curlew on steel   27 Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
SKUA'S> & LARGE GULLS>	Great Skua Stercorarius;   Catharactus skua's;   Pomarine Skua Stercorarius pomarinus;   P arasitic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus;   Long-tailed Skua Stercorarius longicaudus;   American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus   Armenian Gull   Alaskan Glaucous Gull   Atlantic Gull   Larus atl gibraltar picks olives   Caspian- & Marsh gull    Dutch Herring gull   Glaucous Gull   Glaucous Winged Gull   Arctic Gull   Great Black-backed  Gull Larus        Marinus   1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6			Heuglin's & Baraba Gull   Iceland Gull   Kelp Gull/Larus Dominicanus   Kumlien's Gull   Lesser Black-backed Gull - gallery   Russian Herring Gull  L.a.argentatus   Taimyr Gull   Thayer's Gull   Yellow-legged Gull   Young herring gull: a never ending puzzle   Bonding with gulls a lesson in -
MEDIUM-SIZED GULLS> & SMALL GULLS>	Black-Headed Gull   Bonaparte's Gull  Common Gull   The Dutch Common Gull   Franklin's Gull Larus pipixcan   Ivory Gull   Kittiwake			Little Gull  Mediterranean Gull & climate change  Short-billed or Mew Gull  Moongull  Ross' Gull  Russian Common Gull  Swallow-tailed Gulls  Sabine's Gulls
TERNS> >>>INDEX TERNS	American Black Tern   Arctic Tern   Common Tern   Forster's Tern   >>>INDEX TERNS			Garfish pulling   Hybrid Tern   Little Tern  Sandwich Tern / American=mainpage  Sooty Tern on the Island of Eggs
OWLS & NIGHTJARS>	Owls			European Nightjar  Kingfisher
ACROCEPHALUS	Marsh vs Reed Warbler
PIPITS & WAGTAILS>	+ - Water pipit,  + - Rock pipit,  + - Buff-breasted Pipit  a - White Wagtails  b - White Wagtails  c - White Wagtails  d - Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba yarrellii  e - Transbaicalian White Wagtail  ee - White wagtail Hybridisation Motacilla alba baicalensis   f - Blue-headed Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava flava - A   g - Blue-headed Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava flava - B   h - Blue-headed Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava flava - C   i - British Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava flavissima - D			j - Grey-headed Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava thunbergi - E   k - Italian OR Ashy-headed Yellow  Wagtail Motacilla flava cinereocapilla - F   l - Spanish Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava iberiae  - G  m - Sykes' Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava beema -  n - Black-headed Wagtail Motacilla flava feldegg   o - Eastern Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava tschutschensis - I   p - Citrine Wagtails
WAXWINGS	Waxwing
ACCENTORS>	Strange Accentor
WHEATEARS>	Red-tailed Wheatear
OTHER PASSERINES>	British Bullfinches			Redpolls
MAMMELS>	Snow Leopard, near extinct
KITE-SURFING... BUT	Disturbing life
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