Notes

01 January 1965
Comments Notes Methods of distinguishing first-year and adult Shelducks in the field.--The separation of first-year and adult Shelducks Tadorna tadorna in the field has long been very conjectural and there is still a tendency to describe almost any spring or summer floc...
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Notes

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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