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 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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