Notes

01 January 1991 Comments Notes Cormorants drinking in flight. Wigeon head-shaking while feeding. Pair of Mallards eating cherry blossomPrey-capture technique of PeregrineOystercatcher with breast pierced by billA field character for ident...
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Notes

01 September 1988 Comments Notes Peregrines repeatedly attacking stationary Buzzard R. I. Kinley and D. B. Thexton (Brit. Birds 78: 193) recorded a pair of Peregrines Falco peregrinus persistently mobbing a Buzzard Buteo buteo and apparently striking it while in the air. On 2nd April 198...
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Letters

01 June 1985 Comments Letters Bill coloration of treecreepers. The note by Laurel Tucker (Brit. Birds 77: 263-264) questions if the upper mandible coloration could assist in the field separation of the two European treecreepers Certhia. Photographs, in Vara Figlar i Norden (1942) b...
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Notes

01 April 1981 Comments Notes Cormorants perching on overhead cable Further to Neil Trout's note (Brit. Birds 73: 310), I should like to add an observation of some 60 Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo standing together on thick overhead cable near Welney, Norfolk, at...
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