Notes

01 August 1980 Comments Notes Great Crested Grebes breeding on rivers Recent notes by R. E. Youngman (Brit. Birds 70: 544-545) and H. J . Harvey (Brit. Birds 72: 385-386) and the letter by D. H . Gantzel (Brit. Birds 71: 226-227) have documented the history of Great Crested...
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01 May 1978 Comments Notes Mutual cartwheeling by Sparrowhawks  At 08.25 G M T on 6th J u n e 1976, at Rostherne Mere, Cheshire, I observed a pair of Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus soaring over a wood, the male (identified by his much smaller size) above the female. T...
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01 January 1958 Comments Notes Mr. Stephen Brady brought into the Bolton Museum a Snipe (Capella gallinago) which he had picked up dead near Rumworth Reservoir, Bolton, Lancashire. The bird was very stale, but I managed to preserve it since at first glance it was extremely dark. Subseq...
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