Notes

01 December 1997
Comments Notes With reference to Philip Palmer's note and photograph (Brit. Birds 86: 627, plate 231), it is not unusual for Whimbrels Numenius phaeopus to perch on overhead wires in The Gambia. Others and I have observed this and, indeed, one birdwatcher born and br...
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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 May 1981
Comments Notes Buzzard preying on Short-eared Owl At about 13.00 GMT on 26th October 1978,1 observed a Short-eared Owl Asio lammeus quartering the Chy-kembro Common, near Zennor, west Cornwall, at a height of l-2m. Suddenly, a Buzzard Buteo buteo flew up from...
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01 July 1967
Comments Notes Call-notes of Slavonian and Black-necked Grebes in autumn.-- On 24th September 1966, at the Queen Mary Reservoir, Middlesex, I heard an unfamiliar call which I eventually traced to an apparently immature Slavonian Grebe Podkeps auritus. It persistently ut...
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01 December 1963
Comments Notes my last note on the recovery of Starlings marked at Bradfield, Berkshire (Brit. Birds, VI., p. 13), twenty-five captures have to be recorded. Only two of these occurred abroad, or indeed more than five miles from the place where they were ringed, viz. :-...
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01 November 1963
Comments Notes IT has long been known that, in the Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) the mandibles cross indifferently on either side in different individuals. Recently, however, for a special purpose, I desired to ascertain whether or not individuals having the man...
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01 June 1963
Comments Notes IN August I received a letter from Mr. A. C. Theron dated from " Riet Vallei, District Lindley, O.F.S." stating that a Swallow had been captured bearing a ring with my name and address. As Mr. Theron gave neither the number of the ring nor the date of cap...
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Notes

01 May 1963
Comments Notes FOE some years now I have been paying particular attention to the nestlings of common birds. It is of course now known to all ornithologists that the parents keep the nest clean (as a general rule) by carrying away the excrement, and often by swallowing ...
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