Notes

01 September 1998
Comments Notes The northeast Algerian breeding population of White Storks Ciconia ciconia normally leaves for sub-Saharan winter quarters in July and August, at the time when other long-legged marshbirds arrive to winter alongside the large resident population of Cat...
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01 December 1997
Comments Notes With reference to Philip Palmer's note and photograph (Brit. Birds 86: 627, plate 231), it is not unusual for Whimbrels Numenius phaeopus to perch on overhead wires in The Gambia. Others and I have observed this and, indeed, one birdwatcher born and br...
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01 September 1997
Comments Notes The 'Notes' section of British Birds has a history as long as that of the journal itself, providing the opportunity for mostly amateur birdwatchers--as well as the professionals--to record their observations for posterity. For many, this will be the fi...
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01 May 1997
Comments Notes At 08.21 GMT on 13th October 1989, in the Valle del Palmar (Buenavista), northwestern Tenerife, Canary Islands, I saw a male Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus and a female Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus perched less than 40 cm apart on two adjacen...
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01 July 1996
Comments Notes At about 16.00 GMT on 16th February 1992, near West Bagborough, Taunton, Somerset, I saw a Song Thrush Turdus philomelos digging with its bill into a hedge-bank in a field; the thrush pulled out several root fragments of Lords-and-Ladies Arum maculatum...
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01 October 1994
Comments Notes Little Ringed Plover eating tadpole. On 14th May 1989, at a disused, partly infilled gravel-pit in Leicestershire which had been prone to extensive winter flooding, the area was swarming with tadpoles of the common frog Rana temporaria. A Little Ringed...
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01 September 1994
Comments Notes Avocets feeding in compact spinning group. In early February 1990, at Big Lake in the Djoudj National Park for Birds, Senegal, large numbers of Avocets Recurvirostra avosetta were feeding normally in water some 20 cm deep. Suddenly, 150-200 of them dre...
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01 June 1994
Comments Notes Hazel Grouse in the Pyrenees. Since the French breeding bird atlas (Yeatman 1976), the Hazel Grouse Bonasa bonasia has been considered nonexistent in the Pyrenees (Elosegui 1985; CROAP 1987). It is true, however, that its secretive nature and habi...
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01 June 1993
Comments Notes Turnstones feeding at Kittiwake nests. On 27th April 1991, while photographing a colony of Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla on two adjacent cliffs at Newquay, Cornwall, I was surprised to see two Turnstones Arenaria interpres flitting from le...
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