Notes

01 October 2006
Comments Notes All Notes submitted to British Birds are subject to independent review, either by the Notes Panel or by the BB Editorial Board.Those considered appropriate for BB will be published either here or on our website (www.britishbirds.co.uk) subject to the a...
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01 December 2003
Comments Notes For the past ten years, I have studied the behaviour of Common Starlings Sturnus vulgaris which in autumn roost in vast numbers in the reedbeds of S'Abulfera Parc Natural, Mallorca. Each evening, the starlings fly into the Parc from many directions in ...
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01 December 2001
Comments Notes Lame Herring Gull given foraging assistance by presumed mate; European Nightjar using swimming poole; European Bee-eater possibly taking small bird; Wren fotaging in the canopy in autumn; Desnity-dependent winter song of...
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01 February 1991
Comments Notes Night Herons and Little Egrets preying on fish while flying. In the late afternoon of 13th June 1987, during a visit to the northern shore of Manyas Gölu, northwest Turkey, Per-Anders Bertilsson, Rolf Simonsson and I observed large numbers of herons c...
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01 November 1974
Comments Notes Kestrel taking prey from Short-eared Owl On 20th January 1974, Mrs M. Perkins and I watched a Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus hunting in the usual manner over rough grass on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. It dropped into the grass, rose with a small...
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01 November 1963
Comments Notes IT has long been known that, in the Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) the mandibles cross indifferently on either side in different individuals. Recently, however, for a special purpose, I desired to ascertain whether or not individuals having the man...
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01 March 1962
Comments Notes Peregrine incubating Kestrel's eggs.--On 13 th May 1961, I was prospecting some crags in the Great Glen, Inverness-shire, in the hope of rinding a pair of nesting Peregrines (Falco peregrinus). As I approached the most likely-looking face from below, a fe...
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