Notes

01 July 1978 Comments Notes Marsh Harrier apparently hunting over the sea On 19th November 1976, off the Nestos delta, northeast Greece, I saw a Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus flying low over the water. It joined a group of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus and Black-h...
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Letters

01 August 1977 Comments Letters Melanistic Grey Heron Bryan L. Sage (in litt.) has confirmed that, when making his recent comment (Brit. Birds 70: 76), he had overlooked my record of a melanistic Grey Heron Ardea cinerea at Little Tring Reservoir, Tring, Hertfordshire, on 29th S...
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Notes

01 August 1977 Comments Notes Kestrel hiding food At dusk on 6th April 1976, at Ynys-hir, Dyfed, J. Parry and I saw a male Kestrel Falco tinnunculus fly on to a bank below us about 20 m away. The falcon was carrying prey in one foot, which we later found to be a Wheatear Oe...
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