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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01 October 1986 Comments Notes Egret in mid Atlantic. On 21 st November 1984,1 was on board HMS Sirius sailing from Newfoundland, Canada, to Plymouth, Devon. When about 1,500 km west of Cornwall, at approximately 50°N, an egret Egretta Bubulcus circled strongly around the ship for ...
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01 April 1968 Comments Notes Food of Osprey in Kent.--Between 14th September and 18 th October 1967 I spent about 30 hours watching an Osprey Pandion haliaetus which stayed at a reservoir near Folkestone, Kent, for those five weeks. At first it caught small Perch Percafluviatilis ...
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