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01 October 1976 Comments Notes Breeding success of Red-throated Divers on Hascosay The note by D. P. Cyrus on the breeding success of Red-throated Divers Gavia stellata on Fetlar, Shetland, in 1971 {Brit. Birds, 68: 75-76) prompts me to record the following. B. Hawkes and I ...

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01 October 1971 Comments Notes Feeding methods of Long-tailed Skuas.--R. J. Sandison's note on a Long-tailed Skua Stercorarius longkaudus surface-skimming like a Black Tern Chlidonias niger (Brit. Birds, 57: 250) prompts me to record that in August 1962 I several times watched these at...

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01 September 1968 Comments Notes Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent.--On ioth September 1967 J.G.H. found a Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla on the WAGBIWildfowl Trust Experimental Gravel Pit Reserve at Sevenoaks, Kent. Identification was made easier because of his previous experience...

Wigeon X Chiloe Wigeon hybrid resembling American Wigeon

01 April 1968 Comments Main paper It has been established that some interspecific hybrids among ducks and geese (Anatidae) strongly resemble one parent or even another species altogether, thus causing problems in field-identification. An extreme case in Britain is the hybrid Pochard Ay...

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01 March 1967 Comments Notes Lesser Kestrels feeding after dark on insects attracted to artificial light.--At dusk each evening during 13th- 15th May 1964, at Titov Veles, Yugoslavia, I watched up to 43 Lesser Kestrels Falco naumanni hawking for moths and other insects in the vicinit...

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01 January 1967 Comments Notes Heron apparently fishing i n deep water.--The observations below were made by us independently on two separate days, but, because the behaviour was so similar on each occasion as to suggest that it might be the not infrequent habit of one individual, the ...

Hybrid Grey Lag X Canada Goose suggesting influence of Giant Canada Goose in Britain

01 December 1966 Comments Main paper of 1962, at Millom, south Cumberland, a male Grey Lag Goose Anser anser mated with a female Canada Goose Branta canadensis. The Canada Goose, which was perfectly normal in all its plumage characters, had flown in to join a flock of Grey Lags maintained in...

Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent and the problem of identification

01 December 1966 Comments Main paper T H E SMALL American Calidris -waders are notoriously difficult to identify, particularly by anyone lacking in experience of the group (see, for example, Nisbet 1963 and Marchant 1963). Between 6th and 9th September 1965, what eventually proved to be a Se...

The juvenile Plumage of the Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit and further occurrences of this race in England

01 January 1965 Comments Main paper Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit ~Limosa limosa islandica in Britain and, quoting Williamson and Ruttledge (1958) in support, indicated that this form appeared t o favour the 'western and southern half of the country. This opinion was also upheld by Norrevan...

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01 September 1962 Comments Notes Shelduck moulting in breeding area.--On 9th July 1961, in an area of extensive fresh grazing marshes in north Kent, I noticed an adult male Shelduck (Tadorna tadornd) swimming along the edge of a large fleet. The knob on its bill had regressed, but it was...

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Wigeon X Chiloe Wigeon hybrid resembling American Wigeon

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Hybrid Grey Lag X Canada Goose suggesting influence of Giant Canada Goose in Britain

Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent and the problem of identification

The juvenile Plumage of the Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit and further occurrences of this race in England

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