Notes

01 April 1955 Comments Notes in The Handbook to the behaviour of flocks of Coot (Fulica atra) when attacked by birds of prey. On n t h January 1953, at Cannock Reservoir, Staffordshire, I witnessed the same behaviour when a Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) dived over a scattered flock...
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Yellowthroat on Lundy

01 April 1955 Comments Main paper ON 4th November 1954 a first winter male Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) was trapped on Lundy Island, Devon, detained overnight, and released the following morning after being ringed. It had not been seen before it was c a u g h t , but may well have...
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