Notes

01 October 1976
Comments Notes Breeding success of Red-throated Divers on Hascosay The note by D. P. Cyrus on the breeding success of Red-throated Divers Gavia stellata on Fetlar, Shetland, in 1971 {Brit. Birds, 68: 75-76) prompts me to record the following. B. Hawkes and I ...
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01 April 1958
Comments Notes Fish-hook in Heron's pellet.--In March 1956 Tom Schutte brought me the pellet of a Heron (Ardea cinerea) that he had found on the 4th of that month, by the River Beane at Waterford, Hertfordshire. It was composed almost entirely of fur (? W a t e r Vole, ...
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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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