Notes

01 October 1979
Comments Notes Underwing-feeding by Night Heron Canopy feeding by the Black Egret Egretta ardesiaca is well known, and recently has been recorded by M. D. England for Black Storks Ciconia nigra in Portugal (Brit. Birds 67: 236237). J. F. Reynolds (Brit. Birds...
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Notes

01 September 1953
Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...
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Letters

01 March 1946
Comments Letters SIRS,--Witts reference to your comments on t h e note o n . a Robin feeding a fledgling Blackbird (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p, 355), there is anotheroccurrence of a Robin feeding a brood of young Song-Thrushes mentioned, and illustrated, with three photograph...
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Notes

01 October 1933
Comments Notes DURING June, 1933,1 spent a few days at Tomdoun, Glengarry, west Inverness, and had much conversation about the birds of the region with Mr. Murdoch Matheson, head gamekeeper and deer-stalker in Glengarry. Mr. Matheson has a very wide knowledge of the lo...
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