Recent reports

01 May 1994 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 22nd March to 17th April 1994 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris Regular individual returned to Hermaness (Shetland), 26th March. Black Stork Cico...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 1994 Comments Other February's breast-banded passerine (plate 33) was named as Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris (66%), Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra (21%), Bimaculated Lark M. bimaculata (11%) and Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla (2%), It was a juvenile Ho...
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Notes

01 June 1938 Comments Notes As I have not been able to find any record of the HouseSparrow (Passer A. domesticus) excavating a nesting hole in rotten wood, such an occurrence seems to be worth recording. Both the cock and the hen excavated, both birds sometimes being in the confine...
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Notes on the Land-Rail

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper IN Cumberland the Land-Rail (Crex crex) nests commonly in the clover-hay and meadow-hay fields ; sometimes in young plantations where the trees have not yet smothered the grass, and occasionally in the waste land of small bushes and rough grass about coun...
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