Notes

01 June 2010
Comments Notes On 13th August 2009, along with several other observers, I was on board MV Celtic Wildcat taking part in a Sea Trust survey for cetaceans off the Pembrokeshire coast. About 40 km WSW of St Ann's Head, we encoun- tered 6-10 Fin Whales Balaenoptera physa...
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Letters

01 March 1975
Comments Letters Manx Shearwaters plunge-diving Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus commonly feed by plunge-diving, in the manner described by Bernard King {Brit. Birds, 67: 77), when fish shoals are located very close to the surface. I think that the presence ,...
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Autumn habit of the Rooks

01 January 1929
Comments Main paper THE aerial performances of Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) in autumn, as described by the Rev. E. U. Savage (antea, p. 57), have, I venture to suggest, a territorial significance. The visits of these birds to their nesting place or home are always attended b...
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