Notes

01 February 1968 Comments Notes Bill-colour of Garganey ducklings.--On 22nd July 1967, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, I came upon a female Garganey Anas querquedula with two half-grown ducklings. Not having seen ducklings of this species before, I took special note of their colouring. In...
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Notes

01 August 1933 Comments Notes ELLIOTT'S record (antea, p. 46) of the nesting of Rooks in Lombardy poplars has prompted me to send the following short note. In 1930 and 1931 I made a census of the rookeries near Great Budworth, Cheshire, taking a circle with a radius of 4 ! miles. In ...
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