Notes

01 June 1984
Comments Notes Unusual feeding behaviour of Shag. The note on feeding behaviour of Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo (Brit. Birds 74: 348) prompts the following. On 5th February 1977, at Bradwell-on-sea, Essex, I watched an immature Shag P. aristotelis working its way a...
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Notes

01 February 1957
Comments Notes Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ü1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy...
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