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01 November 1988 Comments Notes Grey Heron ingesting junk O n 16th J u n e 1981, at West Sedgemoor, Somerset, I found a juvenile Grey Heron Ardea cinerea; extremely weak a n d almost prostate, it was easily caught. I took it to a nearby farm, where I was told that it had been seen in a ...
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01 October 1988 Comments Notes Identification of adult Sooty and Bridled Terns During a trip to St Lucia in the Caribbean in June 1986, I was able to watch both adult Sooty Sterna fuscata and adult Bridled Terns S. anaethetus and to study their identification.Although Bridled may overl...
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01 September 1988 Comments Notes Peregrines repeatedly attacking stationary Buzzard R. I. Kinley and D. B. Thexton (Brit. Birds 78: 193) recorded a pair of Peregrines Falco peregrinus persistently mobbing a Buzzard Buteo buteo and apparently striking it while in the air. On 2nd April 198...
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01 February 1988 Comments Notes Occurrence of 'Russian' Bean Geese in Lancashire/Merseyside The small flocks of Bean Geese Anser fabalis which winter in Britain consist of individuals of the long-billed nominate race A. f. fabalis, known as the 'Western' Bean Goose (Ogilvie 1978). Strag...
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01 January 1988 Comments Notes W o o d p i g e o n s n e s t i n g o n sea cliffs and i n s i d e buildings Woodpigeons Columba palumbus usually nest on trees, in bushes, hedges, thickets or among creepers, and occasionally on the ground or on ledges of buildings (BWP vol. 4 ) . An exc...
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01 September 1962 Comments Notes Shelduck moulting in breeding area.--On 9th July 1961, in an area of extensive fresh grazing marshes in north Kent, I noticed an adult male Shelduck (Tadorna tadornd) swimming along the edge of a large fleet. The knob on its bill had regressed, but it was...
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