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Very
cute set Geoffrey (especially this one). I wonder if you or anyone could come up
with the non existent code brood patch BP as per this discussion about
cuckoos of late October:
About: I've been told that there is no code for it in the Blitz/COG
records. Yes that appears to be true. I was in the
discussions that set these up, at least for the GBS which followed the new COG
database in about 1992. I guess we didn't even think of brood patch, as typical field obs without handling a
bird would not reveal it. You could say it is a significant oversight. Though I
have not heard the question raised before. The only other thing is it is not
necessarily associated with a place. As in a bird with a brood patch could be
some distance from a nest. A bit of a hollow reason and I suspect brood patch can be less tenuous as a breeding record
than display Di or carrying
food CF (which are of limited
use, especially if not reinforced by
better evidence of the same birds at the same site on other days).
Philip
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