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Unusual hunting method of Short-eared Owl

01 January 2020 Comments Notes At about 15.20 hrs on 17th June 2018, I was watching a Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus hunting over mixed Heather Calluna vulgaris and Purple Moor-grass Molinia caerulea moorland in north Derbyshire. Initially, it was quartering the ...

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01 December 2008 Comments Notes Merlins plucking and eating dead young Short-eared Owl sitting on sea surface to avoid Carrion Crows Male Firecrest helping to feed a Goldcrest family ...

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01 May 1982 Comments Notes Dark eye-patch of Fulmar M. Densley's paper on Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea (Brit. Birds 72:23-28) drew attention to the structure and possible function of dark, bristle-like feathers surrounding the eyes of that species in winter plumage. A ...

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01 May 1930 Comments Notes A ROOK (Corvus f. frugilegus) is at the present time (April 1930) sitting on her nest, which is built on the top of an open, round, disused, chimney-pot on a house at Cheadle, Staffordshire. The cock bird is standing by on the top of an adjoining chimney...