Notes

01 October 1994 Comments Notes Little Ringed Plover eating tadpole. On 14th May 1989, at a disused, partly infilled gravel-pit in Leicestershire which had been prone to extensive winter flooding, the area was swarming with tadpoles of the common frog Rana temporaria. A Little Ringed...
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Notes

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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