Notes

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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Letters

01 February 1988
Comments Letters F i e l d identification o f black-headed Yellow Wagtails When discussing races of the Yellow Wagtail Motacillajlava, Martin van den Berg and Gerald Oreel (Brit. Birds 78: 176-183) claimed that 'most records of jeldegg in western E u r o p e probably resu...
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Notes

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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Notes

01 April 1951
Comments Notes T H E following notes, made on a colony of Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) in a Cambridge street during March, 1949, have been prompted by Mr. C. M. Ogilvie's article on this subject (antea, pp. 1-5). This rookery, comprising only five pairs, was a new one, pr...
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