Notes

01 February 1989
Comments Notes Early wing moult of Eiders. During hard weather in January 1985, there was an influx of Eiders Somateria mollissima into the eastern River Swale, Kent, up to about 150 remaining throughout the spring and summer. O n 4th M a y 1985, C. E. Wheeler a...
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01 September 1985
Comments Notes Fulmars attacking and killing Little Auk. At 16.05 GMT on 13th February 1983, at Marsden, Tyne & Wear, B. C. Forrester, J. Knox, A. Murray and I were watching a Little Auk Alle alle in calm conditions 400m offshore. It appeared to be exhaus...
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01 July 1985
Comments Notes Petrels eating contraceptives, polythene and plastic beads. As part of a more detailed study on the food and feeding ecology of the Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis, regurgitations from adults and chicks from colonies on the Firths of Forth and Clyd...
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01 January 1985
Comments Notes Hybrid resembling Ring-necked Duck. On 18th March 1984, a Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris was reported from Tottenhill Gravel-pits, Norfolk. N. Bostock, myself and others went to see it. At about 150m it resembled a male Ring-necked Duck, but at ...
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01 January 1983
Comments Notes Use by seabirds of human fishing activities. Jeffery Boswall (Brit. Birds 70: 79-81) commented that little has been published on the use made by seabirds of human fishing activities. A main factor adduced by the late James Fisher (1952, The Fulmar) to ...
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01 August 1981
Comments Notes Predation on Manx Shearwaters by grey seals On most evenings during early August 1976, large flocks of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus fed on the tide race between South Bishop Lighthouse and Ramsey Island, Dyfed. Regular gathering...
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01 January 1979
Comments Notes Success of artificial island nest-sites for divers  The breeding success of divers Gavia in south mainland Argyll has been very poor For some years (e.g. one young from eight pairs): too low to ensure maintenance of the populatio...
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01 July 1978
Comments Notes Marsh Harrier apparently hunting over the sea On 19th November 1976, off the Nestos delta, northeast Greece, I saw a Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus flying low over the water. It joined a group of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus and Black-h...
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01 March 1970
Comments Notes Somersaulting behaviour of Canada Geese On ist February 1970 we were members of a party of more than 20 people who witnessed an extraordinary performance by about 200 Canada Geese Branta canadensis which we had watched coming down on Ellesmere, Shropshire...
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01 February 1965
Comments Notes Unusual numbers of Sooty Shearwaters in the eastern English Channel.--A substantial passage of Sooty Shearwaters Procellaria griseusflyingwestwards down the English Channel was observed at Cap Gris Nez, Pas de Calais, France, at the time of a westerly gal...
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