Notes

01 November 1986 Comments Notes Squacco Heron eating passerines. On 11th April 1984, at Eilat, Israel, I watched a Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides catching passerines in a field of alfalfa. In one hour of only intermittent observation, three birds were seen to be caught and swallowed...
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01 December 1977 Comments Notes Great Crested Grebes breeding on rivers Bruce Campbell and James Ferguson-Lees (1971, A Field Guide to Birds' Nests) stated that Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus occasionally breed on stretches of slow-flowing rivers. In the 1970s, in Bu...
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01 January 1960 Comments Notes Wilson's Phalarope in Flintshire.--At 11.30 a.m. on 30th August 1959 I saw a phalarope on a small marsh pool in the upper reaches of the Dee estuary on the Flintshire side. It was at first wading deep in the water, but as it approached the edge of the poo...
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01 September 1959 Comments Notes with Mackerel shoals.--During- the months of July, August and September, Mackerel (Scomber scomber) habitually enter the Village Bay of Hirta, St, Kilda, in the late afternoon and evening. These shoals are often pursued by Grey Seals (Halichoerus gryphus)...
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