Notes

01 August 1978 Comments Notes Storm Petrels chasing albino At 06.00 GMT on 7th August 1977, on Bardsey, Gwynedd, my assistant warden, Trevor Jones, watched four Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus for over 1½ minutes as they flew south close along the west coast. Three were...
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Notes

01 September 1959 Comments Notes Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) have been known to breed on the Flannan Isles, some 20 miles west of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, since 1904 ( W . Eagle Clarke, Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1905, pp. 8-19 and 80-86). However, apart from the discovery of colo...
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