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01 May 1967 Comments Notes Winter breeding of Shags.--On 19th February 1966, on an islet off Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey, I found eight nests occupied by Shags Pbalacrocorax aristotelis and could see eggs in two of the lower ones. By 27th February heavy seas had washed away all exce...

Notes

01 June 1939 Comments Notes THE recent note about Blackbirds (Turius m. merula) feeding on small fish (antea, Vol. XXXII, p. 397) recalls to me that six or seven years ago I watched a pair take repeatedly small tadpoles from a shallow bay of the Little Exe, above Dulverton. Both bir...

The Flocking of immature Herons

01 April 1939 Comments Main paper IT has been suggested to the writer that some notes which he took chiefly in 1935, concerning summer flocking of the Common Heron (Ardea c. cinerea) should be put on record. They would have been published before, if it had not been intended to collect fur...

The migratory status of the Heron in Great Britain

01 January 1939 Comments Main paper THE Common Heron (Ardea c. cinerea) is a species whose movements within the British Isles are easy to observe, but extraordinarily difficult to interpret. This probably accounts for the great paucity of material available for any attempt to reduce them to...

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The Flocking of immature Herons

The migratory status of the Heron in Great Britain

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