Apparent anting by Kestrel.--On 22nd September 1962 a friend and I were driving along the main road between Port Clarence and Seaton Carew, Co. Durham, when we saw a female Kestrel Falco tinnunculus fly up from an adjacent strip of rough grassland and alight on a fence near-by. It appeared in an almost dazed condition and sat hunched on the rail. We stopped the car and, hoping to film the bird, re...

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