Notes

01 March 1986
Comments Notes Little Stints feeding by hovering. The note on Little Stints Calidris minuta feeding in flight in Saudi Arabia (Brit. Birds 11: 156) prompts me to record similar behaviour by this species in Bahrain. My observations were made in fine weather with ...
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01 October 1985
Comments Notes Feeding behaviour and voice of Cory's Shearwater at sea. On 18th August 1982, on board the Cypriot ferry Sol Phryne nearing Piraeus, Greece, I spent several hours trying to photograph a group of up to 70 Cory's Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea followin...
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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 December 1984
Comments Notes Grey Heron parents attending grounded nestlings. In my monograph on the Grey Heron Ardea cinerea (1954, The Heron), I stated of young blown from the treetops that 'If in crashing the bird breaks a leg or wing it will not survive long, but if uninjured ...
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01 December 1983
Comments Notes Apparent feeding association between Gannet and Cory's Shearwater On 1st November 1980, at Torremolinos, Spain, we were separately watching up to five first- and second-year Gannets Sula bassana feeding about 500-800 m offshore, and were attrac...
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01 November 1983
Comments Notes Division of parental care by Mute Swans In May 1978, at Marazion marsh, Cornwall, a pair of Mute Swans Cygnus olor reared three cygnets. In the first four weeks the family remained intact, keeping near the nest site in pools. During this period...
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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 1982
Comments Notes Nest-site provision experiment for Long-eared Owls To attempt to improve the breeding success of Long-eared Owls Asio otus, artificial nestsites were provided in an area where the owls were known to overwinter. The nests provided consisted of t...
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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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