Letters

01 July 1990 Comments Letters Snipe with upturned bill. The recent interesting note by Paul D. Morris (Brit. Birds 83: 117, plate 67) recalls a similar instance, involving an incubating female Snipe Gallinago gallinago with an upcurved bill which I photographed in Cumbria (the...
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Notes

01 July 1990 Comments Notes Little Grebes rearing three broods in Buckinghamshire. Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis first bred at Aylesbury sewage-works, Buckinghamshire, in 1981, when a wet grassland irrigation plot remained flooded throughout the summer. In 1986, a small (0...
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Mystery photographs

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper The flat back, long neck, and white 'cheeks', sidenape and flanks should have made identification of the bird in plate 141 (repeated here) as a grebe (Podicipedidae) straightforward and almost instant. The intensity of the near-black dark areas and the...
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Recent reports

01 July 1990 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 11th May to 15th June 1990 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Great White Egret Egretta alba Rutland Water (Leicestershire), 26th May. Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris Male, Ellis's Gut, Lough...
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