Notes

01 December 1998 Comments Notes I agree with Rob Hume's editorial comment on Roderick Thome's account of a presumed melanistic Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus in Orkney (Brit. Birds 89: 570) that such melanism is rare among gulls. In ten years of active gull-watching, I have seen ...
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Notes

01 November 1984 Comments Notes One Fulmar killing another At 10.34 GMT on 6th April 1982, at Linni Geo, Fair Isle, Shetland, I came across two Fulmars Fulmarus glacialis fighting in the sea at the base of a 30-m cliff. I was about 100m away, but had a clear view. Although I did...
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