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 October 1947
Comments Notes ON June 22nd, 1947, in a wood just outside Calais, I had a good view of a male Golden Oriole (Oriolus 0. oriolus), sitting in sunlight on a bare twig of a lombardy poplar, about 30 feet from the ground. It called continuously for about eight minutes. The...
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