Notes

01 June 1939
Comments Notes THE recent note about Blackbirds (Turius m. merula) feeding on small fish (antea, Vol. XXXII, p. 397) recalls to me that six or seven years ago I watched a pair take repeatedly small tadpoles from a shallow bay of the Little Exe, above Dulverton. Both bir...
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The Flocking of immature Herons

01 April 1939
Comments Main paper IT has been suggested to the writer that some notes which he took chiefly in 1935, concerning summer flocking of the Common Heron (Ardea c. cinerea) should be put on record. They would have been published before, if it had not been intended to collect fur...
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An Index of Heron Population

01 April 1935
Comments Main paper WHEN the " British Birds Census of Heronries Report " was published in 1929 it was recommended that another complete census of British heronries should be taken not later than about 1940, if the full advantages of the 1928 Census were to be reaped. On the...
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