Recent reports

01 November 1986 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to August unless otherwise stated. Weather and displaced migrants For most of the month, the weather was unsettled. Atlantic depressions tracked...
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Notes

01 November 1986 Comments Notes Squacco Heron eating passerines. On 11th April 1984, at Eilat, Israel, I watched a Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides catching passerines in a field of alfalfa. In one hour of only intermittent observation, three birds were seen to be caught and swallowed...
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