Notes

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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Notes

01 December 1989 Comments Notes Distinguishing characters of American/East Asian race of Common Scoter. The Common Scoter Melanitta nigra has an Holarctic distribution, and has been divided into two races on the basis of differences in bill pattern and bill shape. The nominat...
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Letters

01 July 1985 Comments Letters Origin of British Glaucous Gulls. I read with interest A. R. Dean's comments on the possible origins of Glaucous Gulls Larus hyperboreus in Britain and related incidences of occurrences of hybrid Glaucous X Herring Gulls L. argentatus {Brit. Birds 77: ...
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