Notes

01 February 1985 Comments Notes Green-backed Heron in Humberside. On 27th November 1982, together with other observers, including T. Bell and P. A. Bentley, we were searching for a Great White Egret Egretta alba that had been reported in the Thorngumbald area on the north side of the...
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Notes

01 March 1983 Comments Notes Red-necked Grebe making nest-building movements in winter. On 22nd November 1979, at Ghouet Bay, Guernsey, I saw a Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena feeding in company with a Red-breasted Merganser Mergus srrator. After ten minutes the two moved 90m ...
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A study of Swift weights

01 September 1971 Comments Main paper N E A R L Y A L L OF 2,546 Swifts Apus apus caught at Rye Meads Sewage Purification Works, Hertfordshire, in the late spring and summer of 1962 (845) and 1963 (1,701) were weighed and examined before being ringed and released. The pattern of the weights w...
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