Notes

01 March 2000
Comments Notes At 08.51 GMT on 19th October 1995, near Keyhaven, Hampshire, I noticed a Great Skua Catharacta skua in fierce pursuit of a Little Egret Egretta garzetta about 1 km away over nearby saltmarsh. The egret was soon seized by the left wing and tumbled into ...
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Notes

01 February 2000
Comments Notes At 11.55 hours on 10th November 1995, at the Remolar-Filipines Reserve on the Llobregat Delta, Barcelona, Spain, we recorded what seemed to be a co-ordinated attack by three species of raptor on a subadult female Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis. Th...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1992
Comments Other Although mostly submerged , that bird flopping in the water (Brit. Birds 84: plate 296) was very distinctive. Answers given were: Sabine's Gull Larus sabini (88%) Gannet Sula bassana (2%) Osprey Pandion haliaetus (1%) Great Black-backed Gull Larus...
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