Notes

01 April 1988 Comments Notes Pied-billed Grebe catching fish attracted by man. I was very interested in Dan Crawley's recent note (Brit. Birds 80: 72-73) describing how a Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus caught fish attracted by bread thrown to waterbirds. I had rather a sim...
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Mystery photographs

01 April 1988 Comments Main paper A quick glance at the distinctive bill-shape and long, pointed wings of last month's mystery bird (plate 73, repeated here as plate 89) is sufficient to identify it as a shearwater. The astute reader, confident in our sense of fair play, would have imm...
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Notes

01 November 1955 Comments Notes Pheasant nesting 35 feet above ground in same tree as Sparrowhawk.--On 6th May 1963, in company with Adam Gains, we flushed a hen Pheasant (Phasianus cokbicus) from the old nest of a Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) which had been built the previous year abo...
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