Notes

01 April 1973
Comments Notes Arctic Skuas repeatedly chasing passerines On 24th and 25th July 1971, a weekend of rough, wet weather, I noted eleven and 38 Arctic Skuas Stercorarius parasiticus respectively at Aberlady Bay, East Lothian. They were continually chasing Kittiw...
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Letters

01 September 1970
Comments Letters Melanistic White-fronted Geese Further to my note on melanistic European White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons albifrons (Brit. Birds, 63: 131), Eckhart Kuyken has drawn my attention to his recent paper on melanism, albinism and other plumage variants in wi...
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Letters

01 June 1969
Comments Letters Bill-length as a field-character of the White-winged Black Tern ? In his paper on 'Juvenile and winter plumages of the marsh terns' (Brit. Birds, 53: 243-252) Kenneth Williamson differentiated without qualification between the bill of the Black Tern Chlid...
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Notes

01 August 1961
Comments Notes Preening in flight.--So often one does not know what is unusual until someone else says it is. I refer to the publication of a note on a Little Gull (Larus minutus) preening in flight (Brit. Birds, 54: 117}Some attitudes adopted by {left to right) Black-h...
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