Notes

01 February 1981 Comments Notes Peregrine feeding Herring Gull chick to young On 24th May 1978, on the north Cornish coast, I was watching the eyrie of a pair of Peregrines Falco peregrinus. The falcon was brooding a solitary chick about 18 days old and the tiercel was perche...
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Notes

01 May 1960 Comments Notes Broken e g g s i n nests of Sparrowhawk.--I can add two records to Dr. D . A. Ratcliffe's list (Brit. Birds, 53: 128-129) of broken eggs of Sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus), one of them showing that the phenomenon goes back some time. On 7th June 1927, near...
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