Notes

01 November 1979 Comments Notes Mallard trapped by vegetation In August 1975, my husband and I were walking between the River Bain and Horncastle Canal near Kirkby-on-Bain, Lincolnshire, when our attention was drawn by a dog swimming into the canal after a Mallard Anas platyr...
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Notes

01 April 1955 Comments Notes in The Handbook to the behaviour of flocks of Coot (Fulica atra) when attacked by birds of prey. On n t h January 1953, at Cannock Reservoir, Staffordshire, I witnessed the same behaviour when a Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) dived over a scattered flock...
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