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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01 September 1983 Comments Notes Hen Harrier with rufous-orange underparts A large harrier Circus with rich rufous-orange underparts was present on Fair Isle, Shetland, from 25th August to 8th October 1982. It was a large, heavy ring-tail, whose silhouette at times recalled Ma...
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01 December 1971 Comments Notes Interaction of Short-eared Owl, Kestrel and H e n Harrier over pipit prey I read with interest the note by T. M. Clegg and D. S. Henderson (Brit. Birds, 64: 317-318) on a Kestrel Falco tinnunculus taking prey from a Short-eared Owl Asia flammeus. At 09.40...
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01 May 1959 Comments Notes a visit to North Rona, Scotland, on 3rd June 1958, I found a Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) incubating three eggs of the Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus). T h e nest was that of the gull and was built among rocks on comparatively flat ground on the Fi...
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