Notes

01 September 1979 Comments Notes Great Skua killing Sooty Shearwater During August and the first half of September 1977, passage of Sooty Shearwaters Puffinus griseus off Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, was well above normal. Consequently, they and Great Skuas Stercorarius skua w...
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Notes

01 September 1939 Comments Notes PROOF of the sex of the bird choosing the nesting-site is generally so difficult to obtain that it seems worth while to record some evidence in the case of a House-Sparrow (Passer d. domesticus) in my garden in the spring of 1939. Early in March I notice...
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