Notes

01 July 1987 Comments Notes Eider with Arctic Tern chick in bill. On 23rd June 1983, on the island of Mousa, Shetland, I was walking through a colony of approximately 230 pairs of ArcticTerns Sterna paradisaea, within which were about 20 nests of Eiders Somateria mollissima. Stan...
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Seventy-Five years ago

01 July 1987 Comments Other 'LITTLE OWLS BREEDING IN ESSEX. THE first I heard of the Little Owl (Athene n. noctua) in the neighbourhood of Felsted, was from Mr. Hughes-Hughes, of Leez Priory, who had been brought a specimen for identification at the end of 1909 by the bailiff on ...
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