Notes

01 April 1955
Comments Notes Ringed Plover breeding on cliff top,--In mid-June 1962 D . Carr, R, M. Lockley and I found a pair of Ringed Plovers {Charadrim hiaiicula) breeding on top of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire, within a hundred yards of the cliff edge. The site was a fairly l...
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Notes

01 April 1955
Comments Notes in The Handbook to the behaviour of flocks of Coot (Fulica atra) when attacked by birds of prey. On n t h January 1953, at Cannock Reservoir, Staffordshire, I witnessed the same behaviour when a Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) dived over a scattered flock...
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Notes

01 December 1954
Comments Notes Co. Wexford.--Following a period of easterly winds in May, 1953, several notable rarities occurred at Great Saltee, Co. Wexford. Among these were two additions to the Irish List--a Nightingale (Luscinia megarhyncha) and a Tawny Pipit (Anthns campestris), ...
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