News and comment

01 April 1995 Comments News and comment Standing on the top of Sletill Hill, the view was fantastic. For early November in Caithness, the weather was no less fantastic: clear blue skies, not a breath of wind, and temperatures that almost warranted shirt sleeves. Away to the east, Loch More w...
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Letters

01 November 1993 Comments Letters Red-crested Pochard hybrids. The occurrence of hybrids involving Red-crested Pochards Netta rufina may not be so unusual as is suggested by A. H. J. Harrop's note (Brit. Birds 86: 130). A. P. Gray (1958) recorded hybrids with 11 species of the genus An...
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Notes

01 November 1993 Comments Notes Prolonged song of Collared Dove. At Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, the 'coocoo-cuk' song of the Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto is normally repeated in a series of up to five or seven phrases. I have noted it with up to 15 phrases. On 8th July 1993,1 coun...
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