Notes

01 January 1994
Comments Notes Greylag Goose using feet to obtain food. In spring 1990, during studies of staging Greylag Geese Anser anser in Floi, southern Iceland, we made continuous observations on individual pairs as they fed in hayfields. During the first half of April, t...
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01 September 1991
Comments Notes Black-throated Diver attacking Great Crested Grebe. O n 29th December 1984, on the Egleton reserve at Rutland Water, Leicestershire, we watched a Black-throated Diver Gavia arctica dive close to a Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus which was s...
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Notes

01 January 1991
Comments Notes Cormorants drinking in flight. Wigeon head-shaking while feeding. Pair of Mallards eating cherry blossomPrey-capture technique of PeregrineOystercatcher with breast pierced by billA field character for ident...
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01 September 1988
Comments Notes Peregrines repeatedly attacking stationary Buzzard R. I. Kinley and D. B. Thexton (Brit. Birds 78: 193) recorded a pair of Peregrines Falco peregrinus persistently mobbing a Buzzard Buteo buteo and apparently striking it while in the air. On 2nd April 198...
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01 April 1981
Comments Notes Cormorants perching on overhead cable Further to Neil Trout's note (Brit. Birds 73: 310), I should like to add an observation of some 60 Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo standing together on thick overhead cable near Welney, Norfolk, at...
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