Notes

01 July 1985
Comments Notes Petrels eating contraceptives, polythene and plastic beads. As part of a more detailed study on the food and feeding ecology of the Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis, regurgitations from adults and chicks from colonies on the Firths of Forth and Clyd...
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Notes

01 December 1975
Comments Notes Partridge calling from elevated perch On the evening of 3rd March 1961, near Gorsham, Wiltshire, I saw a Partridge Perdix perdix calling from the apex of some stables approximately five metres from the ground. The bird continued to utter the ty...
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Letters

01 April 1965
Comments Letters Manx Shearwaters as prey of Peregrines Sirs,--A recent note by A. J. Gaston (Brit. Birds, 57: 466-467) stated that there did not appear to be any previous record of the Manx Shearwater Procellaria puffinus as prey of the Peregrine Fa/co peregrinus in Brit...
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