Notes

01 June 2007 Comments Notes Slavonian Grebe breeding with Great Crested Grebe Puffin with exceptionally heavy tick infestation Eurasian Sparrowhawk attacking Soprano Pipistrelle bat Reed Warbler apparently using willow-bark pieces in nest construction ...
Read More

Seventy-five years ago

01 February 2006 Comments Other That the number of Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps c. cristatus) nesting in some parts of England is largely determined by the frequency of nesting sites of a certain type can, I think, be proved from the remarkable rapidity they show in coloni...
Read More

Notes

01 April 1986 Comments Notes Juvenile-plumaged Great Crested Grebe in spring. From 27th April to 10th May 1984, a Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus present at Llanishen and Lisvane Reservoirs, South Glamorgan, was in juvenile plumage, showing the characteristic black-and-whit...
Read More

Notes

01 May 1980 Comments Notes Bulwer's Petrel in Co. Cork On 3rd August 1975, during an evening seawatch in light mist from Blananarragaun, Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, I and several other observers, including I. Burrows, P. Campbell and S. Yeo, noticed an unfamiliar seabir...
Read More

Throat-touching by grebes

01 December 1979 Comments Main paper Prinzinger (1974) described and figured an enigmatic 'breast-looking' movement ('das Vor-die-Brust-Schauen') of the Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis, the function of which he could not determine even though observing it at close range. Shortly a...
Read More

Notes

01 October 1975 Comments Notes Cormorants roosting on spire In the late summer and autumn of 1973 Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo regularly roosted on Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex. When this habit was first noted in mid-August only two birds were involved, but numbers gr...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now