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Common Eider nesting on harbour ledge in Kirkcaldy

01 April 2021 Comments Notes On 14th May 2020, William Dickson told me about a Common Eider Somateria mollissima sitting on a nest on the harbour wall at Kirkcaldy, Fife. The nest was situated on the only patch of vegetation along the entire harbour ledge. On 25th May the b...

A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man

01 April 2021 Comments Reviews A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man. The Common Eider and Homo sapiens: fourteen centuries togetherBy Alexandra Goryashko...

BB eye – Petrels by night

01 April 2021 Comments Editorials In June 2012, Pol Dewulf and I travelled to Pico, in the Azores, to photograph the endemic orchids. On Pico, we learnt about a colony of Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris borealis and were recommended to visit the colony at night, when the birds ...

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01 February 1989 Comments Notes Early wing moult of Eiders. During hard weather in January 1985, there was an influx of Eiders Somateria mollissima into the eastern River Swale, Kent, up to about 150 remaining throughout the spring and summer. O n 4th M a y 1985, C. E. Wheeler a...

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Common Eider nesting on harbour ledge in Kirkcaldy

A Wild Bird and a Cultured Man

BB eye – Petrels by night

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