Notes

01 August 1980 Comments Notes Great Crested Grebes breeding on rivers Recent notes by R. E. Youngman (Brit. Birds 70: 544-545) and H. J . Harvey (Brit. Birds 72: 385-386) and the letter by D. H . Gantzel (Brit. Birds 71: 226-227) have documented the history of Great Crested...
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01 March 1973 Comments Notes Spotted Crakes taking food from anglers On 26th September 1972, at a gravel pit in Somerset, I was standing near an angler when from time to time I saw a Spotted Crake Porzana porzana emerge from a narrow belt of reeds behind him and start peck...
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01 January 1951 Comments Notes ON March 23rd, 1947, I observed a presumed male Rook (Corvus fmgilegus) attempting coition on the ground with a presumed female of the same species. The rookery was about 50 yards away.ON,April 4th, 1949, at Little Plumstead, Norfolk, two Rooks were pres...
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01 April 1936 Comments Notes through the kindness of Dr. Tom Hare, Director of the Poultry and Game Research Laboratories, I received a sample of Mallophaga collected from a Blackbird (Turdus m. merula), which was picked up in Dorsetshire. A post mortem examination of the bird showe...
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