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01 April 1993 Comments Main paper When I first saw this photograph (plate 31, repeated here), it was at a distance, so all I could see was what looked like a silhouette of a raptor, which could be an Accipiter. It has pretty good wing shape for a large female Eurasian Sparrowhawk A. ni...

Two hens, but a single nest: an unusual case of polygyny by Hen Harriers in Orkney

01 March 1983 Comments Main paper In June 1981,I was told of a nest of Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus on the East Mainland of Orkney with ten eggs, and two females in attendance. Since an unusually high percentage of first-year males (25%) bred on the West Mainland of Orkney in 1981, ...

Hen-Harriers breeding in Anglesey

01 March 1939 Comments Main paper the second week of May, 1924, a client brought me an egg which he wished identified. It had been found by his son in a nest among some rushes near a small stream in a marsh in Anglesey. Behind this marsh is an extensive area of sand-dunes and rough uncult...

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Mystery photographs

Two hens, but a single nest: an unusual case of polygyny by Hen Harriers in Orkney

Hen-Harriers breeding in Anglesey

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