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01 October 1992 Comments Notes Breeding productivity of Little Grebe. Surprisingly few published data are available on the productivity of the Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis in Britain. Those given by Vinicombe (1982) relate to one locality, Chew Valley Lake, Avon, where the sp...
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01 May 1992 Comments Notes Flight speed of Cormorant. On 31st December 1985, as I was driving with my son along the A10(T) from Littleport, Cambridgeshire, towards Downham Market, Norfolk, an adult Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo rose from the River Great Ouse. It flew along the c...
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01 January 1992 Comments Notes Little Grebes sunning in winter. At 11.30 GMT on 4th November 1988, in Chichester Harbour, West Sussex, I observed three Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis loafing between the yachts in Birdham marina. The yachts were moored closely, side by side, an...
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01 January 1990 Comments Notes Partial albinism of Manx Shearwaters, The note on leucism and partial albinism of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus (Brit. Birds 81 : 235-236) recalled the following. On 18th June 1972, in the Strait of Gibraltar, I observed a flock of about 160 ...
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01 July 1986 Comments Notes Parent Great Crested Grebe killing own small chick. On 30th June 1984, on a fine sunny morning, I was watching a family of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus at Les Grangettes Nature Reserve on Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Each parent carried two chi...
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01 August 1980 Comments Notes Great Crested Grebes breeding on rivers Recent notes by R. E. Youngman (Brit. Birds 70: 544-545) and H. J . Harvey (Brit. Birds 72: 385-386) and the letter by D. H . Gantzel (Brit. Birds 71: 226-227) have documented the history of Great Crested...
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01 November 1977 Comments Notes Kestrels hunting long-eared bats On thq evening of 5th August 1975, in calm, hot, sultry weather with good visibility, I watched two Kestrels Falco tinnunculus hunting bats around the cliffs of Middle Head and Kay Nest, Bilsdale Midcable, ...
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01 October 1975 Comments Notes Cormorants roosting on spire In the late summer and autumn of 1973 Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo regularly roosted on Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex. When this habit was first noted in mid-August only two birds were involved, but numbers gr...
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