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01 March 2002 Comments Notes Is there a dark morph of the North African race of Long-legged Buzzard? Dificulties in determining the age of Arctic Terns in the field Sparrowhawk extracting Gret Tit from feeding cage Hunting method of Merlins in the breeding ...
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01 July 1987 Comments Notes Eider with Arctic Tern chick in bill. On 23rd June 1983, on the island of Mousa, Shetland, I was walking through a colony of approximately 230 pairs of ArcticTerns Sterna paradisaea, within which were about 20 nests of Eiders Somateria mollissima. Stan...
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01 September 1985 Comments Notes Fulmars attacking and killing Little Auk. At 16.05 GMT on 13th February 1983, at Marsden, Tyne & Wear, B. C. Forrester, J. Knox, A. Murray and I were watching a Little Auk Alle alle in calm conditions 400m offshore. It appeared to be exhaus...
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01 June 1984 Comments Notes Unusual feeding behaviour of Shag. The note on feeding behaviour of Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo (Brit. Birds 74: 348) prompts the following. On 5th February 1977, at Bradwell-on-sea, Essex, I watched an immature Shag P. aristotelis working its way a...
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01 June 1969 Comments Notes Little Ringed and Ringed Plovers laying in the same nest For about i£ hours on 15th June 1968, at a gravel pit in Essex, Mrs Gillian Craw and I watched a Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius sitting on a nest which contained four eggs of that spec...
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01 April 1948 Comments Notes IN a recent volume of British Birds (antea. Vol. xxxix, pp. 212 and 340) records are given of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) nesting in heronries. I should like to record that for several years up to 1942, a pair of Ravens nested in a circle of tall pines cont...
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