Notes

01 December 1986 Comments Notes B e h a v i o u r o f j u v e n i l e Baillon's Crake During July and August 1982, at Phassouri reedbeds, Akrotiri salt lake, Cyprus, Gordon W. Rayner and I spent many hours in a hide watching at least six Baillon's Crakes Porzana pusilla (plates 352-354)...
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01 December 1986 Comments Notes Behaviour of juvenile Baillon's Crake This note appears on pages 675-677. Gait and leg length of Spotted Sandpiper Between 4th November 1984 and January 1985, a Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia wintered on the Tavy Estuary, Devon, in company...
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01 January 1929 Comments Notes ON May 4th, 1928, I watched a Goldfinch (Carduelis c. britannica) snapping off the stalks, about two inches from the head, of some " Forget-me-nots " (Myosotis) in our garden in west Sussex. The bird, which was accompanied by a second bird, soon flew off...
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