Notes

01 October 1971 Comments Notes Moorhen killing Jackdaw In view of A. Blackett's note (Brit. Birds, 63: 384), the following incident may be of interest. On 28th June 1964, at Corsham Lake, Wiltshire, I was watching a pair of Moorhens Gailitmla chbropus with five small chicks feeding by ...
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01 April 1967 Comments Notes Sand Martins feeding from the ground.--With reference to the notes by Mrs. E. M. Trevor and P. J. Oliver on House Martins Delichon urbica and Sand Martins Riparia riparia apparently feeding from the ground (Brit. Birds, 58: 511; 59: 499), the following ma...
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01 April 1955 Comments Notes Ringed Plover breeding on cliff top,--In mid-June 1962 D . Carr, R, M. Lockley and I found a pair of Ringed Plovers {Charadrim hiaiicula) breeding on top of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire, within a hundred yards of the cliff edge. The site was a fairly l...
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