Letters

01 November 1988 Comments Letters 'Breeding status of the Gad wall in Britain and Ireland' Since the publication of this paper (Brit. Birds 81: 51-66), a number of inaccuracies and sources of additional information have been brought to my attention. Gadwalls Anas strepera did in fact bree...
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Notes

01 May 1986 Comments Notes Abnormal duration of parental care by male Blackbird. At 16.05 GMT on 14th April 1981, in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, a female Blackbird Turdus merula collecting food for her six-day-old nestlings was killed by a Tawny Owl Strix aluco hunt...
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Notes

01 October 1985 Comments Notes Feeding behaviour and voice of Cory's Shearwater at sea. On 18th August 1982, on board the Cypriot ferry Sol Phryne nearing Piraeus, Greece, I spent several hours trying to photograph a group of up to 70 Cory's Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea followin...
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