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01 July 1968 Comments Notes Little Grebes choking to death on fish.--On ioth March 1968, at Brompton-on-Swale, near Catterick, Yorkshire, J. V. Anderson discovered a freshly dead bird on the river bank, with a fish jammed in its bill. I visited the spot with him the next day and fou...

Requests for information

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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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...

Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent and the problem of identification

01 December 1966 Comments Main paper T H E SMALL American Calidris -waders are notoriously difficult to identify, particularly by anyone lacking in experience of the group (see, for example, Nisbet 1963 and Marchant 1963). Between 6th and 9th September 1965, what eventually proved to be a Se...

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Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent and the problem of identification

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