Notes

01 January 1969
Comments Notes Manx Shearwaters following ships In September 1968, during a voyage from Piraeus to Poros in Greece, I saw that some birds were following another vessel travelling in the opposite direction. As the two ships passed, these transferred to our steamer and I ...
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01 April 1966
Comments Notes Weasel killing Kestrel.--I was interested in Mrs. Sybil Selwyn's observation of a Kestrel Falco tinnunculus which caught a Weasel Mustek nivalis and carried it up into the air, but then let it go {Brit. Birds, 59: 39). On Z7th December 1930 I was watching...
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01 March 1966
Comments Notes Feeding and resting behaviour of a Snowy Owl in Scilly.--During the five months ftom mid-October 1964 t o mid-March 1965 a female Snowy Owl Nyctea scandiaca visited Tresco, Isles of Scilly, for long periods at a time. She was also seen on various other Is...
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01 September 1959
Comments Notes Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorrhoa) have been known to breed on the Flannan Isles, some 20 miles west of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, since 1904 ( W . Eagle Clarke, Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1905, pp. 8-19 and 80-86). However, apart from the discovery of colo...
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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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