Notes

01 April 2004 Comments Notes Little Grebes feeding in association with scuba diversMoorhen interspecific brood parasitismCanabalistic foraging by Common CootsNorthern Lapwing in aberrant plumageRecord numbers of wintering Richard’s Pipits in the Weste...
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01 September 1983 Comments Notes Hen Harrier with rufous-orange underparts A large harrier Circus with rich rufous-orange underparts was present on Fair Isle, Shetland, from 25th August to 8th October 1982. It was a large, heavy ring-tail, whose silhouette at times recalled Ma...
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01 April 1983 Comments Notes Nesting association between Little Grebes and Moorhen,  and aggression of Little Grebes On 23rd May 1979, at Tadmarton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, I found the nest of a Moorhen Gallinula chloropus containing seven eggs built over wa...
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01 July 1982 Comments Notes Great White Egrets with red legs and black bills On 25th October 1981, J. Mikuska, A. Dijksen, J. Kuypers and I observed a flock of 110 Great White Egrets Egretta alba on a fishpond near the Kopacki-Rit in Yugoslavia. Among these herons, J M di...
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01 December 1971 Comments Notes Interaction of Short-eared Owl, Kestrel and H e n Harrier over pipit prey I read with interest the note by T. M. Clegg and D. S. Henderson (Brit. Birds, 64: 317-318) on a Kestrel Falco tinnunculus taking prey from a Short-eared Owl Asia flammeus. At 09.40...
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