Notes

01 November 1986
Comments Notes Squacco Heron eating passerines. On 11th April 1984, at Eilat, Israel, I watched a Squacco Heron Ardeola ralloides catching passerines in a field of alfalfa. In one hour of only intermittent observation, three birds were seen to be caught and swallowed...
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Ospreys in action

01 June 1968
Comments Main paper The Osprey Pandion haliaetus was featured in our series of 'less familiar birds' in 1956 (Brit Birds, 49: 489-492, plates 65-72); the photographs then, by M, D. England, showed the bird perched, the pair at the nest, the nest site, the habitat and other a...
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Notes

01 July 1931
Comments Notes ON May 1st, 1931, in an open hole in a limb of a great ash tree at Bamston Lodge, Essex, I found a Jackdaw (Colceus m. spermologus) sitting on four eggs so much mud-daubed that they were very inconspicuous on the nest material. I had not time to investig...
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