Notes

01 August 1991 Comments Notes Alert posture of Yellow-billed and Great White Egrets. Great White Egrets Egretta alba occur in winter in West Africa alongside Yellow-billed Egrets E. intermedia. While a close view of the head and facial structure will serve to separate them, the two...
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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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