Notes

01 October 1981 Comments Notes Sand Martins feeding on ground P. J. Oliver observed House Delichon urbica and Sand Martins Riparia riparia apparently feeding on the ground in the early morning {Brit. Birds 59: 499); an editorial comment suggested that they might be drinking ...
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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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Letters

01 December 1976 Comments Letters Migration in the doldrums D. I. M. Wallace expressed an atavistic 'Viewpoint' (Brit. Birds, 68: 202-203) that it was time for 'a resumption of migration studies related to conservation', and suggested setting up a working party to promote it. T...
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Letters

01 March 1975 Comments Letters Manx Shearwaters plunge-diving Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus commonly feed by plunge-diving, in the manner described by Bernard King {Brit. Birds, 67: 77), when fish shoals are located very close to the surface. I think that the presence ,...
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