Notes

01 September 1971 Comments Notes Moorhen walking underwater.--In view of the controversy mentioned in a footnote in The Handbook (5: 198-199) and the various records of Moorhens Gallinula chloropus submerging or swimming underwater which have been published in British Birds since that ti...
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Notes

01 May 1954 Comments Notes 24th, 1947, Mr. D. H. Brown and I saw at Rye Harbour, Sussex, a Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps griseigena) still in almost complete summer plumage. This bird was seen at very close range and we noted, rather casually at the time, that the whole of the bill wa...
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Notes

01 May 1946 Comments Notes DURING a continuation of observations on migration in the Trent Valley near Nottingham in 1945, the following species were noted, most of the records being the first for the county and therefore worthy of-record. ICTERINE WARBLER (Hippolais icterina),--A...
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