Notes

01 January 1979 Comments Notes Success of artificial island nest-sites for divers  The breeding success of divers Gavia in south mainland Argyll has been very poor For some years (e.g. one young from eight pairs): too low to ensure maintenance of the populatio...
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Ross's Gulls in Alaska

01 January 1979 Comments Main paper On 3rd August 1894, beset in ice off the Siberian coast, the Noerwegian arctic explorer, Fridtjof Nansen, entered in his diary: 'Today m y longing has at last been satisfied, I have shot Ross's Gull. This rare and mysterious in...
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Notes

01 September 1934 Comments Notes A BLUE T I T (ParUS C. obscurus) had possession of one of my nesting boxes in Hampshire and laid an egg on each of four successive days. The next day, May 8th, no egg was laid, but another appeared on the 9th. I should say that I numbered each egg the da...
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