Notes

01 September 1969 Comments Notes Fish jumping into Heron's mouth On 16th August 1969, at Talybont Reservoir, Breconshire, we saw a Heron Ardea cinerea standing on the edge of a small concrete 'waterfall' about two feet high; it was leaning forward in such a manner that its open bill was ...
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The Hastings Rarities again

01 September 1969 Comments Main paper It was only to be expected that the searching review of the Hastings Rarities in August 1962 (Nelder 1962, Nicholson and Ferguson-Lees 1962) would, in certain circles, cause considerable distress and a desire to rebut, if possible, the arguments which led...
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Recent reports and News

01 September 1959 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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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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