Notes

01 March 1967 Comments Notes Lesser Kestrels feeding after dark on insects attracted to artificial light.--At dusk each evening during 13th- 15th May 1964, at Titov Veles, Yugoslavia, I watched up to 43 Lesser Kestrels Falco naumanni hawking for moths and other insects in the vicinit...
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01 February 1967 Comments Notes Fulmars sitting in trees.--Fulmars Fulmarus glaciatis in east Sutherland have been noted for their versatility ever since Frank Darling and Averil Morley recorded that they -were frequenting the roof of Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, in 1947 {Brit. Birds, 40: ...
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01 February 1962 Comments Notes British-ringed Manx Shearwater recovered in Australia,--The Bird Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology has received a letter dated 22nd November 1961, which reports that the feathers and bones of a sea-bird "black or dark on top with whit...
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01 December 1942 Comments Notes a short visit to Lundy in September, 1942, we identified a Lapland Bunting {Cakarius lapponicus) on the high barren area at the north end of the island on September ioth. The species has not previously been met with on Lundy, nor in the county of Devon. ...
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