Letters

01 July 1978
Comments Letters Diving methods of Great Northern and Black-throated Divers On inland waters, I have noticed that Great Northern Divers Gavia immer always slither under slowly when diving, whereas Black-throated G. arctica jump upwards slightly before they dive...
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Notes

01 June 1939
Comments Notes THE recent note about Blackbirds (Turius m. merula) feeding on small fish (antea, Vol. XXXII, p. 397) recalls to me that six or seven years ago I watched a pair take repeatedly small tadpoles from a shallow bay of the Little Exe, above Dulverton. Both bir...
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The Flocking of immature Herons

01 April 1939
Comments Main paper IT has been suggested to the writer that some notes which he took chiefly in 1935, concerning summer flocking of the Common Heron (Ardea c. cinerea) should be put on record. They would have been published before, if it had not been intended to collect fur...
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