On occasions woodchats have been known to plunder the nests of other birds, which may explain the anxiety of a pair of stonechats nearby. |
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Other observed birds were spotted redshanks, ruffs, red-wattled lapwings, and collared stonechats. |
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Plenty stonechats, whinchats, wheatear, both adults and young were abundant in numbers. |
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I saw half a dozen stonechats scattered singly or in pairs along a mile stretch of the fenceline. |
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Experiments were carried out end of April and June 2000, when gonads of the stonechats were fully developed. |
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We tested one further antibody that has been successfully used in geese but it did not give satisfying results in stonechats. |
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There are plenty of birds too including shrikes, stonechats and larks, and butterflies including swallowtails, and in the woodland glades, Camberwell beauties. |
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Rhys, a warehouseman, said the pair had already spotted cuckoos, stonechats and whinchats, when they saw a large bird being mobbed by buzzards and a peregrine. |
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Photoperiodic responsiveness of equatorial and temperate-zone stonechats. |
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On the island, the fields and scrub were full of Stonechats, Linnets and Wheatears busily tending their young, while a group of seals splashed noisily in the sheltered bay. |
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