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01 October 1976 Comments Notes Breeding success of Red-throated Divers on Hascosay The note by D. P. Cyrus on the breeding success of Red-throated Divers Gavia stellata on Fetlar, Shetland, in 1971 {Brit. Birds, 68: 75-76) prompts me to record the following. B. Hawkes and I ...
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01 May 1960 Comments Notes Broken e g g s i n nests of Sparrowhawk.--I can add two records to Dr. D . A. Ratcliffe's list (Brit. Birds, 53: 128-129) of broken eggs of Sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus), one of them showing that the phenomenon goes back some time. On 7th June 1927, near...
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01 October 1933 Comments Notes DURING June, 1933,1 spent a few days at Tomdoun, Glengarry, west Inverness, and had much conversation about the birds of the region with Mr. Murdoch Matheson, head gamekeeper and deer-stalker in Glengarry. Mr. Matheson has a very wide knowledge of the lo...
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