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01 March 1967
Comments Editorials Autumn and winter influx of Rough-legged Buzzards.---Since October 1966 unusual numbers of Rough-legged Buzzards Buteo lagopus have been widely scattered in eastern and south-eastern counties with some also well inland and others as far west as Cornwall a...
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Notes

01 March 1967
Comments Notes Lesser Kestrels feeding after dark on insects attracted to artificial light.--At dusk each evening during 13th- 15th May 1964, at Titov Veles, Yugoslavia, I watched up to 43 Lesser Kestrels Falco naumanni hawking for moths and other insects in the vicinit...
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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 March 1957
Comments Notes Ortolan Bunting in Middlesex. -- On the morning of 2nd September 1956, I was Walking along the northern bank of the River Brent where it flows into the Brent Reservoir, Middlesex, noting the many migrants which had arrived in the comparative calm after a ...
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