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01 February 1993 Comments Notes Black-headed Gulls foraging behind motor vehicle. On 18th October 1989, while returning from Hilbre Island across the sands to West Kirby, on the Wirral, Cheshire, I noticed a Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus following our Land Rover, Keeping between...
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01 August 1992 Comments Notes 'Water-boiling' display by Whooper and Bewick's Swans. From the mid 1980s, at Welney, Norfolk, we have noticed a regularly occurring display by Whooper Cygnus cygnus and Bewick's Swans C. columbianus feeding in high densities on waste potatoes tipped o...
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01 March 1992 Comments Notes Roosting Hen Harrier killed by fox. On the morning of 14th December 1985, while collecting pellets at a communal roost site of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus on Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, I discovered a quantity of grey and white harrier f...
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01 November 1991 Comments Notes Herons alighting on sea. On 31st August 1985, from the Zuluf offshore oilfield in the Persian Gulf, N. J. S. Drummond and I observed a migrating flight of seven Purple Herons Ardea purpurea flying very low over the sea. One of them suddenly a...
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01 October 1991 Comments Notes Partial albinism of Storm Petrel. The notes on leucism and partial albinism of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus (Brit. Birds 81: 235-236; 83: 22-23) have prompted me to send a rather poor photograph (plate 232) of a partially albinistic Storm Pe...
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01 August 1991 Comments Notes Alert posture of Yellow-billed and Great White Egrets. Great White Egrets Egretta alba occur in winter in West Africa alongside Yellow-billed Egrets E. intermedia. While a close view of the head and facial structure will serve to separate them, the two...
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01 May 1990 Comments Notes Wren fighting with Cetti's Warbler. At 07.30 GMT on 9th August 1987, at Abbey Mead Lake, Newhythe, Kent, I noticed a Wren Troglodytes troglodytes and a Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti fighting on the ground. They were locked in battle, and I came to withi...
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01 October 1989 Comments Notes Male King Eider displaying to Eiders. The note on a male Red-breasted Merganser Mergus senator displaying to a party of Goosanders M. merganser (Brit. Birds 79: 89) prompts the following. In the evening of 23rd May 1986, while watching 200-300 Eid...
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01 February 1988 Comments Notes Occurrence of 'Russian' Bean Geese in Lancashire/Merseyside The small flocks of Bean Geese Anser fabalis which winter in Britain consist of individuals of the long-billed nominate race A. f. fabalis, known as the 'Western' Bean Goose (Ogilvie 1978). Strag...
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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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