Letters

01 January 1980 Comments Letters Bare-part colour of Snowy and Little Egrets The editorial comment which followed G. J. Oreel's letter on field identification of Snowy Egret Egretta thula (Brit. Birds 72: 128-129) was over-simplified and may be misleading. We hope that the fol...
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Notes

01 January 1980 Comments Notes Diving action of Red-necked Grebes No description is given for the feeding dive of the Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena in BWP. During February to April 1979, we watched 12 individuals, four over a long period of time on three reservoirs in ...
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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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