Notes

01 February 1993
Comments Notes Black-headed Gulls foraging behind motor vehicle. On 18th October 1989, while returning from Hilbre Island across the sands to West Kirby, on the Wirral, Cheshire, I noticed a Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus following our Land Rover, Keeping between...
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Letters

01 February 1993
Comments Letters The Cape Clear 'Griffons' The difficulty which Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus have in maintaining flapping flight for substantial periods over the sea makes it highly improbable that the five unidentified eagle-like birds observed flying past Cape Clear ...
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Reviews

01 February 1993
Comments Reviews Grouse in Space and Time: the population biology of a managed gamebird. By Peter J. Hudson. Game Conservancy, Fordingbridge, 1992. 63 colour plates; 61 line-drawings. £25.00. Over nine million acres of upland Britain are maintained in a highly ar...
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Notes

01 July 1968
Comments Notes Little Grebes choking to death on fish.--On ioth March 1968, at Brompton-on-Swale, near Catterick, Yorkshire, J. V. Anderson discovered a freshly dead bird on the river bank, with a fish jammed in its bill. I visited the spot with him the next day and fou...
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