Notes

01 December 1995 Comments Notes On 14th June 1972, near Krisuvik, Reykjanes peninsula, southwest Iceland, I observed a huge gathering of an estimated 30,000 Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla on lava-flow terrain about 6 km inland from the breeding cliffs. Close examination revealed the maj...
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Short reviews

01 November 1990 Comments Reviews Rapaci In Volvo: Liguria: Archeologia Probabile. Birds of Prey in Flight: Liguria: a probable archaeology. By Luisella Carretta. (Pirella editore, Genova, 1988. 73 pages. Paperback ITL34,000) This dual-language book (Italian and English) presents the w...
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Notes

01 September 1983 Comments Notes Hen Harrier with rufous-orange underparts A large harrier Circus with rich rufous-orange underparts was present on Fair Isle, Shetland, from 25th August to 8th October 1982. It was a large, heavy ring-tail, whose silhouette at times recalled Ma...
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Notes

01 May 1963 Comments Notes FOE some years now I have been paying particular attention to the nestlings of common birds. It is of course now known to all ornithologists that the parents keep the nest clean (as a general rule) by carrying away the excrement, and often by swallowing ...
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01 May 1959 Comments Notes a visit to North Rona, Scotland, on 3rd June 1958, I found a Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) incubating three eggs of the Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus). T h e nest was that of the gull and was built among rocks on comparatively flat ground on the Fi...
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Notes

01 October 1947 Comments Notes ON June 22nd, 1947, in a wood just outside Calais, I had a good view of a male Golden Oriole (Oriolus 0. oriolus), sitting in sunlight on a bare twig of a lombardy poplar, about 30 feet from the ground. It called continuously for about eight minutes. The...
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Notes

01 October 1939 Comments Notes FOR some years a pair of Grey Wagtails (Motacilla c. cinerea) have nested in and round a house in Ireland choosing as sites the window ledges of upstairs windows or the thick stems of a Virginian creeper, the nest being either built along a branch or in ...
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01 September 1939 Comments Notes PROOF of the sex of the bird choosing the nesting-site is generally so difficult to obtain that it seems worth while to record some evidence in the case of a House-Sparrow (Passer d. domesticus) in my garden in the spring of 1939. Early in March I notice...
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Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...
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